FAH230H1 Lecture Notes - Sistine Chapel, History Painting, Pietro Perugino
Document Summary
Raphael and michelangelo at work: art and architecture. A work in marble, now in st. peter"s vatican rome. Start with sculpture, but also make paintings and architects etc. Madonna who own the body of christ a subject totally new at the italian time, subject very popular in the north and suggested by the patron himself (french) Michelangelo was a very young artists treatment of the marble polished surface. Madonna is a young and idealized women, she"s holding the body of her son but no sense of drama. Under the belt that crosses her upper body, an inscription: michelangelo"s signature: a work of michelangelo (one of the few works of art that michelangelo singed) David biblical subject from the old testament. Manifestation of biblical subject who won the giant monster. The power of gods made them to do the impossible thing. Iconography young, sword, hero (monster under his feet) at medici.
