Gallery of Sistine Chapel ceiling
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The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is one of the most renowned artworks of the High Renaissance. The ceiling is that of the large Sistine Chapel built within the Vatican by Pope Sixtus IV, begun in 1477 and finished by 1480. The paintings on the ceiling represent Biblical stories about the Creation, Downfall and Salvation of Humankind. This gallery illustrates the main article at Sistine Chapel ceiling.
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[edit] Gallery
 The interior of the Sistine Chapel, looking from the Altar towards the main entrance, showing how Michelangelo's ceiling was part of a total scheme. |
 The Sistine Chapel looking towards the Altar and Michelangelo's Last Judgement. |
 Plan showing the real and fictive architecture |
 Plan showing the pictorial elements. |
[edit] Biblical Narratives
 The First Day of Creation, God divides light from Darkness. |
 Detail of the figure of God, painted by Michelangelo in a single day. |
 The Creation of the Earth, the Sun and the Moon. |
 God separating the waters from the heavens. |
 The Creation of Adam. |
 The iconic image of the Hand of God giving life to Adam. |
 The Creation of Eve |
 The Downfall of Adam and Eve and their Expulsion from the Garden of Eden. |
 Noah's Ark and the Great Flood. |
 Detail from the scene of the Great Flood. |
 The sacrifice of Noah after the Flood. |
[edit] Prophets and Sibyls
 Jeremiah lamenting the fall of Jerusalem, unrestored |
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 Ezekiel hears the word of the Lord, restored |
 The prophet Isaiah |
 The prophet Jonah |
 The Cumaean Sibyl |
 The Erythraean Sibyl |
 The Persian Sibyl |
 The Delphic Sibyl |
 The Libyan Sibyl |
[edit] Pendentives
 Haman's punishment |
[edit] Ancestors
 The family of Jacob and Joseph. |
 The family of Zorobabel. |
 The family of Achim. |
 Figure from the Salmon lunette. |
 Figure from the Ezechias lunette. |
 Figure from the Achim lunette. |
[edit] Spandrels
 In the Salmon spandrel a woman is making a garment while her child looks on. |
 The Ozias spandrel. |
 The Jesse spandrel. |
 The Ezechias spandrel. |
[edit] Ignudi
 This figure is one of the most reproduced on the ceiling. |
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[edit] Shields
 The Death of Uriah |
 Detail of The Idol of Baal |
[edit] References
- Massimo Giacometti , The Sistine Chapel, a collection of essays on aspects of the chapel, its decoration and the restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes, by Carlo Pietrangeli, André Chastel, John Shearman, John O'Malley S.J., Pierluigi de Vecchi, Michael Hirst, Fabrizio Mancinelli, Gianluigi Colallucci, and Franco Bernabei. 1984, Harmony Books ISBN 0-517-56274-X
- Gabriele Bartz and Eberhard König, Michelangelo, 1998, Könemann, ISBN 3-8290-0253-X
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