Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel

The Italian Renaissance was supposed to be an era of rebirth, a time when the focus started to shift from the church. Change, however, does not happen overnight, but slowly and gradually. The Italian Renaissance left behind glorious art that derived from wealth. The art was inspired by the very present religious ideology and the start of acceptance for something different during that time like humanism. Humanism is the idea that humans have great attributes too and not only divine figures. As a result, the church emitted propaganda through art to remind the people that although humans did have good attributes, the church still had hold over the people. Religion also tried to keep the people under their influence with the limitations that were …show more content…
The church had meticulously outlined what they deemed was good to Cristian faith. They wanted to depict what it was Christian faith was about in the art they paid for; Michelangelo was one of those people that got hired to assemble a huge display. As an artist he had portrayed no censorship to the nudity of his work to portray that there was no shame in history. In the picture above of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel you can see that within the painting there are depictions of the old testament like when Adam and Eve when they were being tempted to sin. The Sistine Chapel ceiling is an example of how the art work that derived from the Renaissance was driven by religious ideology; however, over time the nudity didn’t align with the reformed religious views. Due to the change in ideology the church had another painter cover any sort of nudity. Having the depiction of what happened to sinners who did not obey the rules was a reminder of what the church advocated. The need for censorship demonstrates the great influence art had, over what the people took from it. The church had strict guidelines on what a Cristian life looked like, but the most confined was the role of a woman. “Consequently she groups evidence in terms of representations commissioned for specific uses, such as marriage furniture.” The quote shows that the woman of the Renaissance were thought of as objects. It showed that in that time woman were owned to be displayed for their beauty and usefulness. Women were limited to what they could be they were also mainly seen as mothers. One art piece that demonstrates the gender roles is Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci. The Virgin of the Rocks depicts the Madonna, baby Jesus, John the Baptist and an angle. The painting speaks of the role woman had by illustrating that they were care givers to children with the protection of the