Michelangelo in the Renaissance
Prof. Bergstein 2012
Florence
Rome
Michelangelo in Florence and Rome: 1504-1512
David, 1504
Cathedral of Florence
S.M. del Fiore
Brunelleschi’s Dome
Palazzo della Signoria, “Palazzo Vecchio” ca. 1290
Accademia, Florence
Accademia, Florence
Torso del Belvedere >>>>>>>>>>>>
Vatican, Rome, Greco-Roman
Creation of Adam
Ca. 1510
Adam = David in repose
Raphael
Pope Julius II
(r. 1503-13)
Roman Acqueducts
Theater of Marcellus
Raphael
Pope Julius II
(r. 1503-13)
Sistine Chapel
Vatican
Sistine Chapel Interior
(before Michelangelo)
Loacoön excavated 1505
“We all started to draw . . .”
Freud to Rome, 1901
Letter to Giovanni da Pistoia
From Michelangelo
“I’m no painter.”
Ceiling of Sistine Chapel
1508-12
Michelangelo was Ghirlandaio’s apprentice
Domenico del Ghirlandaio
S. Maria Novella, Florence
Fresco (detail) Birth of the Virgin
Libyan Sibyl
Syncretism: Greco-Roman, Jewish, Christian
Preparatory Drawings for Libyan Sibyl
Creation of Eve
(Detail from) Creation of the Sun, Moon, Stars
Separation of Light from
Darkness
With Ignudi
1512
Ignudo (pl. Ignudi)
Ancestors of Christ
Ancestors of Christ, Sistine Ceiling
Restoration of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Cleaning?
Damaging?
Ruined forever?