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It depicts angels helping human souls towards heaven. The attribution to Bosch is not universally accepted. [1] It is located in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, Italy. [2] This painting is part of a polyptych of four panels entitled Visions of the Hereafter. The others are Terrestrial Paradise, Fall of the Damned into Hell and Hell.
Where traditional compositions generally contrast an ordered, harmonious heavenly world above with the tumultuous events taking place in the earthly zone below, in Michelangelo's conception the arrangement and posing of the figures across the entire painting give an impression of agitation and excitement, [4] and even in the upper parts there is "a profound disturbance, tension and commotion ...
Artists who were directly influenced by Michelangelo include Raphael, whose monumental treatment of the figure in the School of Athens and The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple owes much to Michelangelo, and whose fresco of Isaiah in Sant'Agostino closely imitates the older master's prophets. [128] Other artists, such as Pontormo, drew on ...
God is depicted as an elderly white-bearded man, wrapped in a swirling cloak while Adam, on the lower left, is completely naked. God's right arm is outstretched to impart the spark of life from his own finger into that of Adam, whose left arm is extended in a pose mirroring God's, a reminder that God said, "Let us make humankind in our image ...
The End of the World, commonly known as The Great Day of His Wrath, [1] is an 1851–1853 oil painting on canvas by the English painter John Martin. [2] Leopold Martin, John Martin's son, said that his father found the inspiration for this painting on a night journey through the Black Country.
An "old master print" is an original print (for example an engraving, woodcut, or etching) made by an artist in the same period. The term "old master drawing" is used in the same way. In theory, "Old Master" applies only to artists who were fully trained, were Masters of their local artists' guild, and worked independently, but in practice ...
In the background of the painting is the Celestial City, Jerusalem, drawing elements from Martin's earlier historical and architectural paintings, with the Plains of Heaven behind. The light of God pervades the work, with Christ sitting in judgement on the Throne of God in the centre, accompanied by 24 seated elders. Four angels sound trumpets ...
Master of the Bambino Vispo (early 15th century) Master of the Osservanza Triptych (fl. 1425–1450) Paolo de Matteis (c. 1662–1728) Filippo Mazzola (1460–1505) Ludovico Mazzolino (1480–c. 1528) Carla Carli Mazzucato (born 1935) Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli "il Morazzone" (1573–1626) Master of the Bambino Vispo (early 15th century)