Leonardo Da Vinci’s genius has embodied the Renaissance humanist principle. Leonardo has often been portrayed as the prime example of “Renaissance Man” , a man of “unquenchable curiosity” along with “feverishly inventive imagination”. In accordance with Art Historian Helen Gardner the range and complexity of his activities were with no precedent; while “his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote”(Patrico,(20015),107). Religion was important to Da Vinci’s art, a part of his belief approach system and groundwork of a number of his most recognized works. However, the Italian historian and scholar Vasari noticed that Da Vinci “had been a heretic, and more a philosopher than a Christian”. Nonetheless,
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Though perhaps not meant as such, this work expresses Lutheran and reformist principles about man’s eternal relationship with God or about the necessity to try to establish one. The naturalistic depiction of both Adam and God makes the connection more comprehensible for believers although, this idea is just an interpretation. Creation of Adam was painted at a commission of Pope Julius II and is a fresco painting , which forms part of the Sistine Chapel ceiling; it demonstrates the Biblical creation narrative from the book of Genesis in which God breaths life into Adam, the first man that ever lived. The fresco is part of convoluted iconographic scheme and is the fourth in line in the series of panels illustrating episodes from Genesis. Michelangelo painted onto moist plaster by using a wash technique to add broad areas of colour, then as the surface dried out, he return to the same areas adding more liner methods and also combining shade as well as detail with a variety of brushes. The vivid colours and broad visible defined forms make each figure easily noticeable from the ground(Valsari,(2008)p.489). Despite the altitude of the ceiling the dimensions of “The Creation of Adam” are such that when standing underneath it ,”it appears as if the viewer could simply raise a finger and meet those of God and Adam” according to the reactions of the
Though perhaps not meant as such, this work expresses Lutheran and reformist principles about man’s eternal relationship with God or about the necessity to try to establish one. The naturalistic depiction of both Adam and God makes the connection more comprehensible for believers although, this idea is just an interpretation. Creation of Adam was painted at a commission of Pope Julius II and is a fresco painting , which forms part of the Sistine Chapel ceiling; it demonstrates the Biblical creation narrative from the book of Genesis in which God breaths life into Adam, the first man that ever lived. The fresco is part of convoluted iconographic scheme and is the fourth in line in the series of panels illustrating episodes from Genesis. Michelangelo painted onto moist plaster by using a wash technique to add broad areas of colour, then as the surface dried out, he return to the same areas adding more liner methods and also combining shade as well as detail with a variety of brushes. The vivid colours and broad visible defined forms make each figure easily noticeable from the ground(Valsari,(2008)p.489). Despite the altitude of the ceiling the dimensions of “The Creation of Adam” are such that when standing underneath it ,”it appears as if the viewer could simply raise a finger and meet those of God and Adam” according to the reactions of the