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Sistine Chapel

Sistine Chapel. The Last Judgment And Ceiling frescoes. Exterior view Rome. Last Judgment (above chapel’s altar) painted after the ceiling. Giotto’s Last Judgment (right). Christ as Apollo the Sun God.

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Sistine Chapel

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  1. Sistine Chapel The Last Judgment And Ceiling frescoes

  2. Exterior viewRome

  3. Last Judgment (above chapel’s altar)painted after the ceiling

  4. Giotto’s Last Judgment (right)

  5. Christ as Apollo the Sun God

  6. …Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.( Matthew 25:31-46 )

  7. Michelangelo’s self portrait as flayed Bartholomew

  8. Dismas “the good thief “

  9. Gislebertus Last Judgment –souls ascending (right)

  10. …the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged by those things written in the books; according to their works… And whosoever was not found written in the book of life; was cast into the pool of fire. (Apocalypse 20:11-15)

  11. Gislebertus’s souls being taken (right)

  12. Michelangelo’s hell

  13. Figure 21-41 LUCA SIGNORELLI, Damned Cast into Hell, San Brizio Chapel, Orvieto Cathedral, Orvieto, Italy, 1499–1504. Fresco, 23’ wide. 23

  14. Charon, the demon, beckoning before, with eyes glowing coal, assembles all: Whoever lags, he beats them with his oar………( Dante, Inferno 3:109-20)

  15. Giotto’s hell (right)

  16. Michelangelo depicted the Pope’s Master of Ceremonies Biagio da Cesena as Minos –the judge of the underworld. • Cesena was a critic of the fresco- calling it disgraceful. • Michelangelo painted Cesena’s likeness in after the critique.

  17. Ceiling

  18. Format was commissioned to be the 12 apostles but Michelangelo turned the design into a history of Christianity.

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