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The Deposition (also called the Bandini Pietà or The Lamentation over the Dead Christ) is a marble sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance master Michelangelo.The sculpture, on which Michelangelo worked between 1547 and 1555, depicts four figures: the dead body of Jesus Christ, newly taken down from the Cross, Nicodemus [1] (or possibly Joseph of Arimathea), Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary.
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 ...
Along the central section of the ceiling, Michelangelo depicted nine scenes from the Book of Genesis, organized into three groups of three related scenes. The scenes alternate between smaller and larger pictures, with the former framed by two pairs of ignudi flanking a medallion. [92] The first group depicts God creating the Heavens and the Earth.
The traveling exhibit "Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel" will open March 11 and run for six weeks at the gallery in West Palm Beach
Importuno di Michelangelo: c. 1504 Palazzo Vecchio, Florence Pietraforte Rothschild Bronzes [6] 1506–1508 Fitzwilliam Museum: Bronze Male torso I (in Italian) c. 1513: Casa Buonarroti, Florence Terracotta height 23 cm Male torso II (in Italian) c. 1513: Casa Buonarroti, Florence Terracotta height 22,5 cm Naked woman scale model (in Italian)
A new version of Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto’s “Venus of the Rags” has been unveiled in Naples after the original was destroyed in a suspected arson attack. The artwork—a statue ...
The Meeting of Leo the Great and Attila depicts the storied parley between the Pope and the Hun conqueror, and includes the legendary images of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in the sky bearing swords. A fully developed drawing by Raphael indicates he planned to place the pope – portrayed with Julius's features – in the background; when Leo X ...
A man has been arrested over the leak of graphic crime scene photos taken from the wooded trail where teenage best friends Libby German and Abby Williams were brutally murdered.. In what marks the ...