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The Last Judgment at the end of the chapel Charon and his boat of damned souls. The Last Judgment was a traditional subject for large church frescos, but it was unusual to place it at the east end, over the altar. The traditional position was on the west wall, over the main doors at the back of a church, so that the congregation took this ...
The work then proceeded to the ceiling, completed on 31 December 1989, and from there to The Last Judgment. [152] The restoration was unveiled by Pope John Paul II on 8 April 1994. [153] The restoration of the ceiling was directed by Fabrizio Mancinelli and performed by Gianluigi Colalucci, Maurizio Rossi, Pier Giorgio Bonetti, and Bruno ...
47 cm × 35 cm (18 + 1 ⁄ 2 in × 13 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) Kimbell Art Museum, purchased from Sotheby's auction, Catalogue of Old Masters sale (Lot No. 69), 9 July 2008 by Adam Williams Fine Art, New York, as "Workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio". Subsequently purchased by the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas and attributed to Michelangelo. [10] [11]
The Belvedere Torso is a 1.59-metre-tall (5.2 ft) fragmentary marble statue of a male nude, known to be in Rome from the 1430s, and signed prominently on the front of the base by "Apollonios, son of Nestor, Athenian", who is unmentioned in ancient literature. It is now in the Museo Pio-Clementino (Inv. 1192) of the Vatican Museums. [1]
3/5 The British Museum employs immersive techniques to bring the great Renaissance master’s drawings to life in a show that shifts from the intensely powerful to the saccharine before a finale ...
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The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States.