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Michelangelo as a painter

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Michelangelo's early works used classical pyramidal composition and emphasized anatomy. His masterwork was painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel between 1508-1512, commissioned by Pope Julius II. The ceiling depicts nine scenes from Genesis divided by pillars, synthesizing architecture, painting and sculpture. Michelangelo's figures are bulky with exaggerated forms, holding impossible positions to support the vault. The Last Judgement shows Christ judging humanity, with sinners struggling in hell and the saved rising to heaven. Michelangelo came to value spiritual beauty over physical beauty as a fleeting illusion, seeking the eternal contemplation of God.

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MICHELANGELO as a Painter
First pictorics works Classic, by using pyramidal composition like his contemporaries. As innovation: big measures and importance of anatomy
The Doni tondo . Naked in the background represent the world of ideas . Cool colors, Nature is just the scenery
His main work (1508-12), Creation and Judgement
The Sistine Chapel ceiling It was commisioned by Julius II Designed from foot (Man in Sin) to head (perfection of Gods face)
Michelangelo as a painter
From the Book of Genesis Neoplatonic ideas Divided in nine different pictures divided by fictitious pillars As result: synthesis of architecture, painting and sculpture
Symbols under de main pictures Prophets and sibyls to whom divine truth is revealed
Cumea Sibyl and Isaias Prophet
Picture or sculture? His compositions are far away from the ideal beauty. Large male arms in contrast with fragile lower limbs
Michelangelo as a painter
Bulky, ugly and exaggereated forms
In lunette Christ's ancestors perform daily scenes to combine the pagan world and the Christian world.
Naked Symbols of life and passion. Impossible positions holding the vault.
Michelangelo as a painter
Upward progression to the altar
Noah drunk and old Noah's body is a symbol of human imperfection
The flood Humanity remains imperfect and wants to survive escaping punishment
And God created Man in His image The figures appear in a brain shaped mantle which is the spirit of God, the Origin of all. Energy of God in contrast with Adams passiveness
The creation of Eve
The original sin and the expulsion from paradise
God said, Let there be light and there was light
God created a firmament and separated the waters and land
Creation is a violent act, this way God makes his power known to man
The last Judgement
Is concerned about the future of Humanity
Judge Christ, authority and Judge, decides the fate of humanity
Christ young, athletic, no attributes of passion, sets the scene
On the left Sinners struggling to emerge from the shadows of hell
On the right The Saved go up by an extraordinary force
Meanwhile angel musicians play sacred hymns
St Bartolomeo and Michelangelo Beauty in itself does not interest Michelangelo
Michelangelo had loved the human figure, the living beauty, the charm that emanates from man, but he realizes that physical beauty is a sudden illusion and loves the spiritual beauty, because is eternal like the contemplation of God. The End

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