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Material : Fresco
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Indoor Architecture
Fresco (Ceiling)
Vitrine : 2
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Le Vatican (Le Vatican)
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And God said: "Let the earth put forth vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, ..." And it was so" (Genesis1:11)... "And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, a third day" (Genesis1:13) ... "God made the two great lights, the greater lighter to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also" (Genesis1:16) ... "And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day"(Genesis1:19)
Michelangelo shows the third and fourth day of the Creation simultaneously. On the left, in fact, God, seen from behind, extends his arm towards a bush, alluding to the vegetable world. On the right, the majestic figure of the Lord reappears while, with an imperious gesture of his hands, he points and divides the sun and moon in the heavens.
The central part of the ceiling shows nine stories of the Genesis, divided into groups of three, relative to the origin of the universe, of man and of evil. The first three episodes (Separation of Light from Darkness: Genesis 1:1-5; Creation of the sun, moon and planets: Genesis 1:11-19; Separation of Land from Sea: Genesis 1,9-10) dominated by the figure of God, Creator of the Universe, are followed by those of the Creation of Adam (Genesis 1:26-27) and of Eve (Genesis 2:18-25), with the figures of man and woman in their nakedness, the symbol of innocence (Genesis 2:25) which will be lost with Original Sin (Genesis 3:1-13), shown in the next panel together with the resulting Banishment from the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:22-24). The last three frescoes (The Sacrifice of Noah: Genesis 8:15-20, The Flood: Genesis 6:5-8,20, The Drunkenness of Noah: Genesis 9:20-27) show the fall of mankind and its rebirth with Noah, chosen by God as the only man to be saved for repopulating the earth after the Creator had decided to destroy every living creature in it because of human evil. | Map(s) | |
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Article "Michel-Ange" d'Etienne Bricon paru dans La grande encyclopédie : inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres et des arts - Paris 1885-1902
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Les textes sacrés apocryphes
La Bible juive se limitait, au début du Ier siècle, aux cinq rouleaux de la Loi ou Torah, aux rouleaux des grands et petits prophètes, et à celui des psaumes.
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