ARTH 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pope Sixtus Iv, Pietro Perugino, Libyan Sibyl
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Imagery of propaganda that supports and promotes the pope (shows. Michelangelo was very reluctant to take the commission. Michelangelo devised a new type of scaffolding to reach the ceiling but contrary to popular belief he did not paint lying on his back. He wrote a poem about the pains in his neck from painting the ceiling: very brilliant, striking colors, michelangelo, temptation and expulsion of adam and eve, sistine chapel ceiling, Combining of 2 subject matters: the temptation and the expulsion ---- the two are divided by the oak tree with the snake wrapped around it. The oak tree is a representation of pope julius" ii fa(cid:373)il(cid:455) (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g the origi(cid:374) of human kind. His original name was juliano delarovere, and the coat of arms of the delarovere family featured an oak tree. Michelangelo had an obsession with the musculature of the body, which led to the suffering of his anatomical proportions being correct.
