Michelangelo Paper
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- La Pieta
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- Kneeling Figure from The Last Judgement
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- Sistine Chapel Ceiling
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- The Last Judgement
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Michelangelo:
A World of Giants
Every once in a great while, an artist appears who is so extraordinary that he or she changes the way the entire world looks at things. The great Italian sculptor, painter, and architect Michelangelo was one of these special creators. The brooding faces shown here reflect the artist’s own intense personality. Michelangelo used the human body to express an idea rather than tell a story. He sculpted and painted only figures, but no matter how complex they became, many of his figures were based on people who were important in his own life.
Michelangelo was born in 1475 in the city of Florence in northern Italy. His mother died when he was six, and he was brought up by a stonecutter’s family. At 13, Michelangelo left school and studied in a artist’s workshop. There were many workshops to choose from because, during this time known as the Renaissance, there was a renewed interest in classical realism, and Florence was the art center of Europe. A powerful family, the Medici, saw the teenager’s talent and invited him to study in the palace for three years.
When he was 23, Michelangelo went to Rome and received a commission for a Pieta- a sculpture of Mary, Christ’s mother, holding the body of her son. The beauty of Michelangelo’s sculpture with every lock of hair and fold of cloth perfectly carved out of marble, made Michelangelo the most celebrated sculptor in Rome.
Michelangelo returned home to Florence a few years later to create monument for the city, reworking a huge block of marble that had been ruined by another sculptor 35 years before. He worked steadily and secretly for four years in a shed with a high fence around it. When the David was unveiled, the Florentines, used to small, delicate sculpture, were stunned. A huge figure stands waiting, his eyes flashing, his sling ready to defend the city. Michelangelo had proved himself the greatest sculptor in all Italy.
In 1505, Michelangelo began work on a great tomb for Pope Julius II. The central figure was Moses, a powerful figure listening
intently for God’s message, so he can deliver it to his people. Moses’ face was said to resemble that of Julius II, who was very important in the artist’s life. He commissioned Michelangelo to create what is probably his most famous work, a great painting for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Michelangelo lived nearly 90 years, devoting his later years to architecture and poetry as well as sculpture. When he died, a critic said, “Nothing like Michelangelo has ever appeared before or ever will again.”
Visions of Hell
In 1534, Michelangelo was commissioned to paint the end wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. As with every project, once Michelangelo made up his mind to do it, he became completely involved.
Now that he was nearly 60, he decided to express his own fears of death in paint. He would create his versions of the Last Judgment- the day that the earth is destroyed, then the good are rewarded and the wicked punished.
In the center of the sea of bodies, an angry Christ raises his right hand and lifts those who spent their lives well up to heaven. With his left, he drives the wicked down to the eternal fires of hell. Below, the angels blow trumpets calling the dead to life. Skeletons rise from opened graves and demons push the wicked into the flames.
The creation of this gigantic vision took Michelangelo five years and required many drawings. He did quick sketches from models capturing the action of the pose. Then he did modeled drawings, depicting the lights and shadows, making the figures look three-dimensional.
Another way to make a figure look real is foreshortening. The feet in the drawing, appear to be coming out at the viewer. Michelangelo has created this effect by making the feet larger and darker, while the head and arm are smaller and lighter. How are Christ’s left arm and leg foreshortened? Can you find any other example of foreshortening in the painting?
Michelangelo include his own self portrait in the Last Judgment. One of his enemies (the gray-bearded man below Christ) holding what appears to be a rag. But if you look closely, he is holding up a human skin with Michelangelo’s features on it. Does Michelangelo see him himself as the limp skin? Is he saying evil triumphs over good, or that he himself, is evil? In this work, as in others, Michelangelo was as mysterious as ever.
Creating a new universe
Have you ever tried to paint a ceiling high above you head? Was it easy? What if you then had to paint or draw a picture on it? And what if the ceiling were four stories high and as big as the school auditorium?
In 1508, Pope Julius II decided to have the ceiling of his most important chapel repainted. Naturally he wanted the best artist in Rome to do it, and he assigned the job to Michelangelo. The artist insisted that he was a sculptor and couldn’t paint. But, as soon as another artist suggested he was probably not able to paint foreshortened figures, Michelangelo went to work. While a huge scaffold was being built, the artist began to draw and plan.
Michelangelo decided to use the human figure as a way to show the creation of the world. This story, surrounded by a frame filled with figures from the bible, would be told in nine central panels. These panels are set off from the outside figures by the blue sky in the background (almost giving the effect of a huge skylight in the middle of the ceiling.) The figure at the bottom is Jonah who, in the Bible, was swallowed by a big fish. Can you find the fish? Jonah is looking up at the first panel, in which God creates day and night. Above that, God (shown twice) makes sun and moon; in the next, the oceans. The next scene is probably Michelangelo’s best known work. God, on the right, creates Adam, the first human being. The image of the two fingers touch has become one of the most famous in all art. Eve, the first woman, is created in the top panel.
When he finished his plan and had sketched some of the figures, Michelangelo climbed the scaffold and began painting. He worked alone day and night, bent backwards, paint dripping in his face, hardly eating and sleeping only when he dropped. “Sometimes he kept his boots on for so long that when he drew them off, the skin came away too.” During the four years it took the artist to finish the ceiling, the chapel was locked and only the Pope was allowed inside. In October 1512, the Sistine Chapel was opened and all Rome came to admire it. The sculptor Michelangelo, who said he couldn’t paint, had created one of the greatest paintings in the world.
A World of Giants
Every once in a great while, an artist appears who is so extraordinary that he or she changes the way the entire world looks at things. The great Italian sculptor, painter, and architect Michelangelo was one of these special creators. The brooding faces shown here reflect the artist’s own intense personality. Michelangelo used the human body to express an idea rather than tell a story. He sculpted and painted only figures, but no matter how complex they became, many of his figures were based on people who were important in his own life.
Michelangelo was born in 1475 in the city of Florence in northern Italy. His mother died when he was six, and he was brought up by a stonecutter’s family. At 13, Michelangelo left school and studied in a artist’s workshop. There were many workshops to choose from because, during this time known as the Renaissance, there was a renewed interest in classical realism, and Florence was the art center of Europe. A powerful family, the Medici, saw the teenager’s talent and invited him to study in the palace for three years.
When he was 23, Michelangelo went to Rome and received a commission for a Pieta- a sculpture of Mary, Christ’s mother, holding the body of her son. The beauty of Michelangelo’s sculpture with every lock of hair and fold of cloth perfectly carved out of marble, made Michelangelo the most celebrated sculptor in Rome.
Michelangelo returned home to Florence a few years later to create monument for the city, reworking a huge block of marble that had been ruined by another sculptor 35 years before. He worked steadily and secretly for four years in a shed with a high fence around it. When the David was unveiled, the Florentines, used to small, delicate sculpture, were stunned. A huge figure stands waiting, his eyes flashing, his sling ready to defend the city. Michelangelo had proved himself the greatest sculptor in all Italy.
In 1505, Michelangelo began work on a great tomb for Pope Julius II. The central figure was Moses, a powerful figure listening
intently for God’s message, so he can deliver it to his people. Moses’ face was said to resemble that of Julius II, who was very important in the artist’s life. He commissioned Michelangelo to create what is probably his most famous work, a great painting for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Michelangelo lived nearly 90 years, devoting his later years to architecture and poetry as well as sculpture. When he died, a critic said, “Nothing like Michelangelo has ever appeared before or ever will again.”
Visions of Hell
In 1534, Michelangelo was commissioned to paint the end wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. As with every project, once Michelangelo made up his mind to do it, he became completely involved.
Now that he was nearly 60, he decided to express his own fears of death in paint. He would create his versions of the Last Judgment- the day that the earth is destroyed, then the good are rewarded and the wicked punished.
In the center of the sea of bodies, an angry Christ raises his right hand and lifts those who spent their lives well up to heaven. With his left, he drives the wicked down to the eternal fires of hell. Below, the angels blow trumpets calling the dead to life. Skeletons rise from opened graves and demons push the wicked into the flames.
The creation of this gigantic vision took Michelangelo five years and required many drawings. He did quick sketches from models capturing the action of the pose. Then he did modeled drawings, depicting the lights and shadows, making the figures look three-dimensional.
Another way to make a figure look real is foreshortening. The feet in the drawing, appear to be coming out at the viewer. Michelangelo has created this effect by making the feet larger and darker, while the head and arm are smaller and lighter. How are Christ’s left arm and leg foreshortened? Can you find any other example of foreshortening in the painting?
Michelangelo include his own self portrait in the Last Judgment. One of his enemies (the gray-bearded man below Christ) holding what appears to be a rag. But if you look closely, he is holding up a human skin with Michelangelo’s features on it. Does Michelangelo see him himself as the limp skin? Is he saying evil triumphs over good, or that he himself, is evil? In this work, as in others, Michelangelo was as mysterious as ever.
Creating a new universe
Have you ever tried to paint a ceiling high above you head? Was it easy? What if you then had to paint or draw a picture on it? And what if the ceiling were four stories high and as big as the school auditorium?
In 1508, Pope Julius II decided to have the ceiling of his most important chapel repainted. Naturally he wanted the best artist in Rome to do it, and he assigned the job to Michelangelo. The artist insisted that he was a sculptor and couldn’t paint. But, as soon as another artist suggested he was probably not able to paint foreshortened figures, Michelangelo went to work. While a huge scaffold was being built, the artist began to draw and plan.
Michelangelo decided to use the human figure as a way to show the creation of the world. This story, surrounded by a frame filled with figures from the bible, would be told in nine central panels. These panels are set off from the outside figures by the blue sky in the background (almost giving the effect of a huge skylight in the middle of the ceiling.) The figure at the bottom is Jonah who, in the Bible, was swallowed by a big fish. Can you find the fish? Jonah is looking up at the first panel, in which God creates day and night. Above that, God (shown twice) makes sun and moon; in the next, the oceans. The next scene is probably Michelangelo’s best known work. God, on the right, creates Adam, the first human being. The image of the two fingers touch has become one of the most famous in all art. Eve, the first woman, is created in the top panel.
When he finished his plan and had sketched some of the figures, Michelangelo climbed the scaffold and began painting. He worked alone day and night, bent backwards, paint dripping in his face, hardly eating and sleeping only when he dropped. “Sometimes he kept his boots on for so long that when he drew them off, the skin came away too.” During the four years it took the artist to finish the ceiling, the chapel was locked and only the Pope was allowed inside. In October 1512, the Sistine Chapel was opened and all Rome came to admire it. The sculptor Michelangelo, who said he couldn’t paint, had created one of the greatest paintings in the world.