was able to show the way the body moved‚ as well as its displays of unrestrained passion‚ overwhelming grief‚ or endless torment. This is what makes "The Last Judgment" such a unique and exceptional work of art. The Last Judgment is a canonical fresco by the Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo executed on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City‚ Rome‚ Italy. It is forty-eight feet by forty-four
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni is a highly respected and known Italian sculptor‚ painter‚ and poet who is to this day considered one of the best artists of all time. One of his most famous works is the ceiling fresco he painted in the Sistine Chapel‚ which is in Vatican City‚ Rome. Twenty-five years later‚ when Michelangelo was sixty years old‚ he was asked by Pope Clement VII to paint the alter wall in the Sistine Chapel: the Last Judgment. This piece represents the Second Coming of
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at the age of 26 years old with the nickname of Masaccio‚ was commissioned to work on the Brancacci Chapel in Florence‚ Italy in 1425. One his famous works was “The Holy Trinity.” Masaccio painted this extraordinary fresco right before he left for Rome in 1426. The painted fresco reached 22 feet high and depicts a classical Roman architectural setting‚ none of which you see is real architecture but is all painted. The Trinity is a three in one story of God. God the Father‚ the Son who emanates
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for the statue of Mars between two bronze colored harpies. Each section of the frame recedes to this point. The three columns on either side of the temple and the three temple tiers that also lead down to the vanishing point. Space created in this fresco also recedes to imply depth. The two crowds of people overlap the painted frame‚ which makes them appear closest to the viewer. Space continues to move away from the foreground with the temple steps receding to the vanishing point and the tiers also
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The main fresco of the Sistine chapel took four years to complete (1508-12). The last Judgment was created twenty three years later after completing the Genesis ceiling fresco. It is located on the altar of the Sistine chapel. The Last Judgment was commissioned by Pope Clement VII (1523-1534) shortly before his death‚ and confirmed in 1535 by his successor‚ Pope Paul III (1468-1549) who was considered the first Counter Reformation Pope. As a religious artwork it was the largest single fresco mural painting
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copy” of this larger mural for exhibition in the United States of America. This is a very unique fresco painting‚ being that it is portable. Fresco is the art or technique of painting on a moist plaster surface with the colors ground up in water or lime water mixture. He produced 7 other “portable Fresco pieces for his exhibition in The Museum of Modern Art in New York City‚ New York. The frescos were copies of various murals in the palace. Diego Maia Concepion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao
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From my perspective‚ but limited familiarity with works of art in general‚ the Raphael painting is significant in that it is considered a prime example of High Renaissance art and considered Raphael’s masterpiece. I believe it is also significant because as a component of the School of Athens (1509-1511) the painting over a period of 500 years continues to influence discussion and analysis among art historians and scholars. History suggests that Raphael was clearly influenced by Michelangelo’s
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The Philosophy (School Of Athens) is a fresco located in the Stanza della Segnatura of the Vatican Palace in Rome‚ Italy‚ that dates back to sometime between 1509 and 1511‚ created by Raphael. Within the fresco‚ there are various classical elements that can be noted‚ such as the coffered ceilings. All of the philosophers or otherwise influential thinkers of the Classical Era are all congregated within a classical lyceum. A lyceum‚ or gymnasium‚ can otherwise be described as a school. For example
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other works ever won him quite the same renown as his fresco in the Sistine Chapel‚ a building now virtually synonymous with his name. Almost immediately after Michelangelo unveiled it in 1512‚ the fresco became like an academy for artists‚ who had since long been using the Sistine Chapel as storehouse of ideas. They treated works of Michelangelo as some kind of a portfolio through which they concocted new ideas. The prestigious style of buon fresco generated intense interest‚ in particular‚ among a
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“The Last Supper” is exemplary of the High Renaissance and the mastered work of Leonardo Da Vinci. The fresco in the church refectory (cafeteria) of Santa Maria della Grazie in Milan was finished between 1495 and 1498. Although the subject matter of “The Last Supper” is not new‚ the way that Da Vinci depicts it at the height of the revelation of betrayal is original which allows Da Vinci to discover how to emotionally divulge each apostle’s reaction and personality. The naturalism in Da Vinci’s
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