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HighRen_Michelangelopainting.pptxART HISTORY 132
High Renaissance: Painting
Michelangelo
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)
biography:
distinguished Florentine family
lived as child in Palazzo Medici
home of Florentine ruler; ripe w/ Humanist ideas
also an art school w/ celebrated collection of classical works of art
style: characteristics (painting)
strong contour (line) defines boundary of forms
color: vibrant, & complimentary
brushwork: vigorous
musculature: hyper-exaggerated
extensive use of “foreshortening”
proportionately contracting in depth
creates illusion of projection or extension in space
Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel (1508-1512)
site: large Papal Chapel built w/in Vatican between 1477-1480 by Pope Sixtus IV
patron: Pope Julius II
"warrior pope"
Undertook aggressive campaign for political control to unite Italy under leadership of the Church
decorative program: architectural framework painted (“faux”)
spandrels curved triangles
ribbed vaulting
program:
nine (9) OT ceiling
Last Judgment (NT) east wall
View of Michelangelo’s decorative program of frescos on the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel (1508-1512)
Detail from Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam in Sistine Chapel
Detail from Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam in Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam in Sistine Chapel (c. 1500 CE) vs. Apotheosis of Antoninus Pius and Faustina, pedestal of Column of Antoninus Pius, Rome (c. 161 CE)
(Left) Detail of Adam from Creation of Adam in Sistine Chapel (c. 1500 CE) vs. (right) Dionysos from east pediment of the Parthenon, Acropolis (c. 450 BCE)
Michelangelo’s Expulsion (c. 1500) in Sistine Chapel
(Left) detail from MICHELANGELO’s High Ren. Expulsion (c. 1500) vs. (right) MASACCIO’s Italian Early Ren. Expulsion (c. 1425)
Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel
Last Judgment (1536-1541)
context: political
Protestant Reformation
Sack of Rome
mood: somber & turbulent
narrative: NT combined w/ Humanist references (e.g., Charon/Hades)
composition: dynamic commotion
loosely arranged into registers
anchored along CVA by placement of divinity
color: vibrant
perspective: aerial
Michelangelo’s High Renaissance Last Judgment (1500) vs. Giotto’s Gothic Last Judgment (c. 1300)
Detail from Michelangelo’s Last Judgment in Sistine Chapel
Details of Hades from Michelangelo’s Last Judgment in Sistine Chapel
(Left) Details of Hades from Michelangelo’s High Renaissance Last Judgment in Sistine Chapel (c. 1525-50 CE) vs. (right) detail from Giotto’s Gothic Last Judgment (c. 1300 CE) in Arena Chapel
IMAGE INDEX
Slide 2: Portrait of Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni.
Slide 3: Interior view of Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, Rome.
Slide 4: View of Michelangelo’s decorative program of frescos on the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel (1508-1512)
Slide 5: MICHELANGELO. Creation of Adam (c. 1510), Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome.
Slide 6: Detail, God the Father, MICHELANGELO’s Creation of Adam (c. 1510).
Slide 7: (Left) Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam in Sistine Chapel (c. 1500 CE); and (right) Apotheosis of Antoninus Pius and Faustina, pedestal of Column of Antoninus Pius, Rome
(c. 161 CE)
Slide 8: (Left) Detail of Adam from Creation of Adam in Sistine Chapel (c. 1500 CE); and (right) Dionysos from east pediment of the Parthenon, Acropolis (c. 450 BCE)
IMAGE INDEX
Slide 9: MICHELANGELO. Fall of Man (c. 1510), Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome, Italy.
Slide 10: (Left) detail from MICHELANGELO’s Fall of Man (c. 1510); versus (right) MASACCIO’s The Expulsion from Paradise, (c. 1425)
Slide 11: MICHELANGELO. The Last Judgment (c. 1535-40), Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome.
Slide 12: Comparison of (left) MICHELANGELO’s Last Judgment; and (right) GIOTTO’s Gothic Last Judgment (c. 1300).
Slide 13: Detail from MICHELANGELO’s The Last Judgment of detail of Christ and upper register.
Slide 14: Detail (left) from MICHELANGELO’s The Last Judgment of demon from Hell and (right) detail of the Damned.
