Scrovegni Chapel

period are still used today. Some artists, such as Michelangelo, specialized in all artistic fields, specifically architecture, painting, and sculpture. By working in almost all fields, he could handle any job thrown at him, such as the SIstine Chapel ceiling. Others concentrated on one subject, like constructing new buildings with a never used before style. The flexibility…

Cascina in 1504. It has a central scene that shows a group of muscular soldiers climbing from a river where they had been swimming to answer a military alarm. In 1508, Pope Julius II told Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel. Another Chapel that Michelangelo did was the Medici Chapel. In 1520 Michelangelo was told to do it. Michelangelo also has wrote many poems from the 1530s to the 1540s. For a while Michelangelo focused on architecture instead of many other things. Even though…

For several people, the ideas of death and god are very mystifying since many people believe once you’re dead you’re just dead that the idea of the afterlife is something we created to cope with the thought of death. The thought of the dead is very terrifying, however, people rely on their faith to help them conquer the ideas of death. Since the beginning of time, people have a lien on their faith and believing in a higher power will help people overcome devastation, grief, despair, and…

both paganism and christiantiy. This is one of the reasons Botticelli was such a popular artist in his time. By 1460, Sandro Botticelli already had his own personal studio. Botticelli’s talent was recognized when he was asked to paint for the Sistine Chapel.…

What is beauty? In a classical sense beauty is something of perfection primarily with a strong connection towards math hence that everything beautiful was perfectly proportional and followed the golden ration of size and precision. The great Philosopher Plato believed that we find things beautiful when we unconsciously sense in them qualities we want such as gentleness, harmony, balance, peace, strength, and perfection. Michelangelo as well as Plato shared the same belief of what beauty was.…

One of the greatest paintings ever made is located in the Sistine Chapel. This chapel is in the Apostolic Palace, which is the official residence of the Pope. Within the Sistine Chapel, the celling was painted by Michelangelo. This painting depicting nine scenes from the book of Genesis, including “The Separation of Light from Darkness”, “The Sacrifice of Noah” and “The Fall of Man and the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden”, is known as one of the wonders in the Renaissance Era. In addition,…

whether he liked it or not. When the Pope told Michelangelo that his job was to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel he was furious. He felt that painting was the job of a woman or “mediocrities like Raphael”. He felt so strongly about this that he said painting and sculpting is as different as the sun and the moon. How was Michelangelo Buonarroti coerced into painting the Sistine Chapel? The situation Michelangelo was caught that I had previously mentioned involved…

widely known works of art are the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and the Creation of Adam. Michelangelo was influenced by the Greek mythological era and the Christian Religion. The Greek aspects are shown through his sculpting styles, he also made his sculptures larger than the actual height of a man at the time. Michelangelo had several religious ties to his work, with his painting of Last Judgement and the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Raphael Sanzio is another great renaissance…

People have enjoyed the beauty of art. Art is all around us and it has made a huge impact in our lives and throughout history. Art is expressed in many different way some created by man and some created by machine. Most agree that some of two greatest artist of all time are Leonardo Davinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti. Leonardo Davinci was born on April 15, 1452. His mother was a peasant named Caterina and his father was a public notary in the city of Florence his name was Ser Piero Da Vinci.…

known for many of his works and contributions to art and science. Michelangelo was a painter, sculptor, architect, and poet and changed the way people think of anatomy. Some of his famous works include the Pieta and David sculptures and the Sistine Chapel ceiling paintings. He has been called the “greatest artist of his age” and the “genius of the Renaissance.” Before the Renaissance, paintings and sculpture were considered shallow and unstylistic. Paintings and sculpture were unimportant to…