FILE: 21_Sistine Ceiling Flattened View_Michelangelo.jpg

TITLE: PAINTING - Sistine Ceiling - HIGH ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

DESCRIPTION: by MICHELANGELO. FRESCO. Flattened view. 70' high. Sistine Chapel named after its builder, Pope Sixtus. Michelangelo stopped work on tomb for Pope Julius II in order to do Sistine Ceiling. 300 figures. Down the center: Scenes from Old Testament foretelling coming of Christ. Along sides in triangular SPANDRELS and LUNETTES: Hebrew prophets and Greek sybils from mythology (females who could see future). Each scene tells its own story and is separated by FAUX ARCHITECTURE and 4 "IGNUDI" (nudes).