Painting #022 - Michelangelo

Michelangelo

(1475–1564) 

Sistine Chapel

The Sistine Chapel is in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the pope in Vatican City.

Sistine Chapel - exterior 

Sistine Chapel ceiling 

Sistine Chapel - interior 
(Please note the ceiling)

Sistine Chapel ceiling
Michelangelo (1475–1564) in 1505–12

Sistine Chapel ceiling - legends
Central to the ceiling decoration are nine scenes from the Book of Genesis, including The Creation of Adam. 

Creation of Adam at the middle of the ceiling 

fresco  (280 cm × 570 cm)

Eritrean Sibyl 《埃利色雷的女預言家》

Miserere

- "Miserere mei, Deus" / "Have mercy on me, O God"

- by Gregorio Allegri (1582–1652, Italian priest) in 1630s

- for the Sistine Chapel Choir:

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The Agony and the Ecstasy  

The fantastic 1962 movie enacted the agony and the ecstasy that Michelangelo and his sponsor Pope Julius II (nicknamed the Warrior Pope) had had gone through during the Sistine Chapel ceiling painting project.


24 years later, Michelangelo returned to the chapel and painted the Last Jugement on the wall behind the altar.

The Last Judgement
- Michelangelo
- fresco (1370 x 1200 cm) 1536-41
- Sistine Chapel (Vatican) 

 

The Last Judgement by Verdi 

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Madonna of the Stairs

The Madonna of the Stairs

- Michelangelo

- marble relief (57 x 40 cm) c.1491

- Casa Buonarrot (Florence)

Madonna della Pietà

La Pietà

- Michelangelo

- marble (174 x 195 cm) 1498-99

- St. Peter's Basilica (Vatican)

The Statue of David

..... completed by Michelangelo in 1504, is one of the most renowned works of the Renaissance. There is a replica outside Palazzo Vecchio (Florence).
     The little David boy, who threw a stone to kill a giant, grew up to be a muscular man and King David. 

(L) statue of the Biblical hero David

- Michelangelo

- marble  (5.17 m) 1501-04

- Galleria dell'Accademia (Florence)

 

(R) a replica of David

stands outside the Palazzo Vecchio

Source: Wikipedia

MICHELANGELO - THE GENIUS