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The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City Rome depicts the Creation from Genesis in the Old Testament to Judgement day in the New Testament.Masterpiece paintings by Michelangelo.
One of the greatest treasures of all time. Inaugurated in 1483 by Pope Sisto 4th, the chapel was to represent all the majesty of the Roman Church. The most famous painters of the era were called to paint the walls, but the Sistine is well known for the symbol of one of the giants of art of all times, Michelangelo Buonarroti. He was 30 and was already one of the greatest artists of the time when Pope Julius II asked him to decorate the Chapel, the world's largest fresco, 12,917 sq. ft. ceiling, an almost impossible task. The Chapel was cold. Michelangelo ate and slept under the vault. Painting with his neck and spine bent back was excruciating, and the cold molded the fresco, He had to destroy most of his Noe's flood fresco and start over. Furious of the delays, Pope Julius II even beat Michelangelo with a stick. But the artist continued on, and at the end, after months of inhuman hard work he won. When it was opened to the public in 1483, the Sistine Chapel left the whole world in oar. He had not painted almost any subject drawn from the gospels, but instead had inspiration from the old testament. The artist exhorted the three-dimensionality of the figures and was a monumental and dramatic painting that tended as much as possible to the art that He preferred, the sculpture. Someone defined it as the sanctuary of the theology of the human body. The scenes from the Genesis are not limited to illustrations of the bible but provide an occasional bold interpretation. In the creation of Eve, woman does not originate from a rib but from Adam's own side. In the original sin Eve's guilt is represented in the crudity of her physical appearance. The serpent, in the form of a woman, almost as if anticipating its means. But Adam's creation is the most significant fresco of the entire Ceiling. Simply extraordinary is the invocation of the two indexes that are about to come into contact. God transmits the spark of life, his hands stretched one to the other without ever touching it, as if God created himself reflecting in the mirror of his youth in Adam's portrait. The Sistine Ceiling is an unprecedented visual impact. A triumph was to say the least. But Michelangelo could not enjoy it, even though only 4 years had past, the artist had grown older, his long work had bowed his back and affected his sight. But the fate of Michelangelo's Sistine were now re-united. It is 1534 and Pope Clement the 7th orders Michelangelo, now in his sixties, to return to the Chapel to fresco the alter wall. The old artist could not refuse. The largest surface ever frescoed by a single artist. An overwhelming work, radically different from any fresco ever seen before. He completely disregarded the powerful colors realized in the Ceiling. In their place the flat and uniform blue force and dark bottom of the pits, definitively abolishes all the peaceful prospects of the Ceiling. In the scene, the bodies float heavily in the air without the wings and even eliminated in the angels. The provocative nakedness of the figures is another proof of His inflexibility to bend to the demands of the pontiff. Sarcastic insights go on through the work. In the figure of Minosse, Michelangelo would portray the Pope's ceremonial priest, for criticizing the Fresco's nudity, in the empty skin exhibited by St. Bartholomew, a self-portrait of Michelangelo himself was scorned alive by criticism Of his enemies. But it is in shaping the ideas of the spiritual that the Last Judgement finds its true greatness, the terror of the day of judgment. Not even the saints and the angels are spared by the tremendous climate of fear. Our Lady trembles at the side of the mighty Christ who with His gesture, judges and condemns all 400 pictures taken without distinction from their nakedness. The inauguration brings enthusiasm as it does criticism, The enemies of Michelangelo recognized in his painting the influence of Lutheran heresy and asked for its destruction. What a fortune of the world, it has not been destroyed but lasted over the centuries along with the Ceiling. 2 absolute masterpieces, a true hymn to the perfection and beauty that man can achieve through art. No wonder they nicknamed Michelangelo, il Divino (The Divine One) He truly was.
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