The Sistine Chapel is one of the most famous painted interior spaces in the world, and one of the most famous works of Michelangelo which depicts key scenes from the book of genesis. This breathtaking painting came into world fame in about 1508-1512.
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The chapel, situated in Vatican city of Italy, was built in 1479 under the direction of Pope Sixtus IV, and is renowned for its Renaissance art, especially the ceiling painted by Michelangelo. In 1508, Michelangelo was asked by Pope Julius II of Rome to paint the ceiling of the chapel. Michelangelo thought of himself as a sculptor and preferred working with marble but he took this task and it took Michelangelo merely four years to complete it, a remarkably short time given the fact that he refused to work …show more content…
The two most important scenes on the ceiling are his frescoes of the Creation of Adam and the Fall of Adam and Eve/Expulsion from the Garden. In this review, I’m discussing the ‘Creation of Adam’.
In the Creation of Adam, the artist's image of God reaching out to Adam has become iconic of humanity and has been reproduced numerous times like Mona Lisa and ‘The Last Supper’ of Leonardo-da-Vinci.
The left side of the painting shows a figure who is Adam, the first human, and he is lying on the with his upper body face outward, his right hand on the ground and left hand is lifted up with his index finger slightly lifted and reaching out to God and his face looking at the God. To the right of Adam, there is a much more complicated scene with God and Angels behind him. While Adam is shown young and naked, God is portrayed as an image of an old man with a grey beard and clothed in a flowing pink cloak. In the painting, God is pictured as- flying through the sky carried by eleven young angels. Their hair and the blue scarf is flowing as if it is being blown in the wind. The wingless angels have an expression of amazement on their
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The chapel, situated in Vatican city of Italy, was built in 1479 under the direction of Pope Sixtus IV, and is renowned for its Renaissance art, especially the ceiling painted by Michelangelo. In 1508, Michelangelo was asked by Pope Julius II of Rome to paint the ceiling of the chapel. Michelangelo thought of himself as a sculptor and preferred working with marble but he took this task and it took Michelangelo merely four years to complete it, a remarkably short time given the fact that he refused to work …show more content…
The two most important scenes on the ceiling are his frescoes of the Creation of Adam and the Fall of Adam and Eve/Expulsion from the Garden. In this review, I’m discussing the ‘Creation of Adam’.
In the Creation of Adam, the artist's image of God reaching out to Adam has become iconic of humanity and has been reproduced numerous times like Mona Lisa and ‘The Last Supper’ of Leonardo-da-Vinci.
The left side of the painting shows a figure who is Adam, the first human, and he is lying on the with his upper body face outward, his right hand on the ground and left hand is lifted up with his index finger slightly lifted and reaching out to God and his face looking at the God. To the right of Adam, there is a much more complicated scene with God and Angels behind him. While Adam is shown young and naked, God is portrayed as an image of an old man with a grey beard and clothed in a flowing pink cloak. In the painting, God is pictured as- flying through the sky carried by eleven young angels. Their hair and the blue scarf is flowing as if it is being blown in the wind. The wingless angels have an expression of amazement on their