The High Renaissance and Mannerism: Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel

pietà

a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of the dead Christ, usually shown held on her lap

Pietà (artist)

Michelangelo

Pietà (date)

1498-1500

Pietà (material)

marble

Pietà (patron)

Cardinal Lagraulas

Pietà (location)

The Vatican, Rome

David (artist)

Michelangelo

David (date)

1501-1504

David (material)

Marble

David (patron)

City of Florence

David (details)

• reveals different emotions at different angles

• exaggerated head and hands

• interesting when compared to Donatello’s “David”

Sistine Chapel, ceiling (artist)

Michelangelo

Sistine Chapel, ceiling (date)

1508-1512

Sistine Chapel, ceiling (material)

fresco

Sistine Chapel, ceiling (location)

Vatican City, Rome

Sistine Chapel, ceiling (patron)

Pope Julius II

The Sistine Chapel (1414-1484), the Pope’s private chapel, was named after its founder, ______.

Pope Sixtus IV

Pope Julius II’s Tomb (artist)

Michelangelo

Pope Julius II’s Tomb (date)

1513-1515

Pope Julius II’s Tomb (material)

marble

Pope Julius II’s Tomb (location)

Rome

Pope Julius II’s Tomb (patron)

Pope Julius II

Pope Julius II’s Tomb (details)

• unfinished (or at least reduced in scale) because they ran out of funds

• Moses looks angry and about to spring up at any moment

Mannerism

a style that thrived from 1520-1600 which employed “artifice,” often involving contrived imagery not directly derived from nature; emerged in reaction to the High Renaissance style; involved in distortions of form, space, and color; Michelangelo paints his Last Judgement in this style

Last Judgement (artist)

Michelangelo

Last Judgement (date)

1536-1541

Last Judgment (location)

Altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome

Last Judgement (material)

fresco

Last Judgement (details)

• Christ in the guise of Apollo

• Michelangelo included himself on the skin of Bartholomew 

• Detail of the damned figure

• Continuous with the ceiling frescoes

Last Judgement (patron)

Pope Paul III

Neoplatonism

a philosophical movement inaugurated by Plotinus (204-270 AD); his ideas are linked with Florentine art of the 15th century