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  2. The Last Judgment (Michelangelo) - Wikipedia

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    The Sistine Chapel: The Art, the History, and the Restoration, 1986, Harmony Books/Nippon Television, ISBN 0-517-56274-X; Vasari, Giorgio, selected and edited by George Bull, Artists of the Renaissance, Penguin 1965 (page nos. from Book Club Associates (BCA) ed., 1979) Wind, Edgar, Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance, 1967 ed., Peregrine Books

  3. Sistine Chapel ceiling - Wikipedia

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    The Sistine Chapel ceiling (Italian: Soffitto della Cappella Sistina), painted in fresco by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is a cornerstone work of High Renaissance art. The Sistine Chapel is the large papal chapel built within the Vatican between 1477 and 1480 by Pope Sixtus IV , for whom the chapel is named.

  4. Gallery of the Sistine Chapel ceiling - Wikipedia

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    The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is one of the most renowned artworks of the High Renaissance. Central to the ceiling decoration are nine scenes from the Book of Genesis of which The Creation of Adam is the best known, the hands of God and Adam being reproduced in countless imitations. The complex ...

  5. Codex Windsor - Wikipedia

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    Leonardo da Vinci began studying the anatomy of the human body in the late 1470s and may have participated in the first dissections at the University of Padua. His records indicate that he began performing autopsies himself around 1505. [3] By the year 1518, he reported that he had performed a total of thirty autopsies during his lifetime.

  6. Restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes - Wikipedia

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    Individually, some of Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling are among the most notable works of Western art ever created. [ a ] The frescoes of the Sistine Chapel and in particular the ceiling and accompanying lunettes by Michelangelo have been subject to a number of restorations, the most recent taking place between 1980 and 1994.

  7. Vitruvian Man - Wikipedia

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    The art historian Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich, writing for Encyclopædia Britannica, states, "Leonardo envisaged the great picture chart of the human body he had produced through his anatomical drawings and Vitruvian Man as a cosmografia del minor mondo ('cosmography of the microcosm'). He believed the workings of the human body to be an ...

  8. List of works by Leonardo da Vinci - Wikipedia

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    The Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was the founding figure of the High Renaissance, and exhibited enormous influence on subsequent artists.Only around eight major works—The Adoration of the Magi, Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, the Louvre Virgin of the Rocks, The Last Supper, the ceiling of the Sala delle Asse, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist ...

  9. Altarpiece in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception

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    The Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci at the National Gallery, London. The work's patron is clearly identified: the Immaculate Conception Brotherhood, a lay confraternity in Milan, attached to the church of San Francesco Maggiore (Italian: San Fransesco Grande).