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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.
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 ...
The Creation of Adam (Italian: Creazione di Adamo), also known as The Creation of Man, [2]: plate 54 is a fresco painting by Italian artist Michelangelo, which forms part of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, painted c. 1508 –1512. [3] It illustrates the Biblical creation narrative from the Book of Genesis in which God gives life to Adam, the ...
The following is a list of works of painting, ... David: 1501–1504 ... Sistine Chapel ceiling 1508–1512 Fresco Sistine Chapel, ...
A reconstruction of the appearance of the west Wall chapel in the 1480s, prior to the painting of the ceiling Drawing by Pinturicchio of Perugino's lost Assumption in the Sistine Chapel Raphael tapestries in the Sistine Chapel. The ceiling of the chapel is a flattened barrel vault springing from a course that encircles the walls at the level of ...
Renaissance figure Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, according to researchers.. The ...
Researchers claim to have come across a figure of great importance in Michelangelo’s nearly 500-year-old painting, The Last Judgment. Located on an entire altar wall in the Sistine Chapel in ...
The west end of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. The Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted between 1508 and 1512. [53] The ceiling is a flattened barrel vault supported on twelve triangular pendentives that rise from between the windows of the chapel.