The High Renaissance in Rome: Michelangelo
FA 0016 History of Western Art 2
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)
Michelangelo "Pietà" (marble)
St. Peter's, Rome,
1498-1500
Michelangelo "David" marble,
Florence, 1501-04
Laocöon (Hellenistic Greek)
1st c BCE-1st c CE
Michelangelo “Moses” from tomb of Julius II (Rome) 1513-1516
Sistine Chapel
Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere
Temple of Solomon,
Jerusalem
(Book of Kings)
Sistine Chapel ceiling, 1508-12
Pope Julius II
della Rovere
Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel ceiling,
1508-12
Michelangelo "Creation of Adam"
Michelangelo "Fall of Man"
Michelangelo "Libyan Sibyl"
Michelangelo "The Last Judgment"
fresco on altar wall, Sistine Chapel,
Rome, 1534-41
influence of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” 1321