What is the Sistine Chapel A small chapel in the Popes official residence in Vatican City In history it was used as a chapel a place for religious ceremony Now its the place where the bishops meet to select a new Pope ID: 659117
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Sistine ChapelSlide2
Kind of a dull little place, no?Slide3
What is the Sistine Chapel?
A small chapel in the Pope’s official residence (in Vatican City)
In history, it was used as a chapel: a place for religious ceremony
Now, it’s the place where the bishops meet to select a new PopeSlide4
So why is it so famous now?
The frescos, painted by Michelangelo, are the reason that this chapel is so well known.
Called the Sistine Chapel after Pope
Sixtus
IV who had some famous people paint the inside.
Michelangelo was commissioned by Pope Julius II to paint the ceilings
He painted between 1508-1512 (ouch, that’s a long time!)
He came back under a different Pope to paint
The Last Judgement
behind the alter (another long time, 1536-1541)Slide5
Let’s look at a few of the paintings
You and a partner will be assigned one of these paintings to learn more about.
You will tell
What the painting depicts (what story)
What details are in the painting (they are all very intricate)
Why it was chosen to be painted on the ceiling
You will do a virtual tour and try to find your painting in the chapelSlide6
Example
The Drunkenness of Noah
Noah as planting a vineyard and as drinking the wine and being found by his three sons
It shows how his sons became powerful and started a new line of people after a flood that killed everyone
Important to have on the ceiling for Christians to remember the story of what happened AFTER Noah
Noah is in red as well as in frontSlide7
The Last JudgmentSlide8
The Separation of Light from DarknessSlide9
The Creation of EveSlide10
The Fall of Man and the Expulsion from ParadiseSlide11
The Story of NoahSlide12
The FloodSlide13
Secret Images – Can you find them?
In 1990, some physicians
suggested that
the flying-seat shape and figure of God in "The Creation of Adam" makes up an anatomically correct image of the human brain
.
In 2010, it was asserted that "The Separation of Light From Darkness" panel
contains a human brain stem
.
Other
theorists have suggested that Michelangelo depicted kidney imagery on the ceiling.
As a sculptor, Michelangelo was fascinated by the human form. He studied cadavers to get a better sense of anatomy, and would have been familiar with the human brain.
Painting the Sistine Chapel was an exhausting task, and Michelangelo’s relationship with the Catholic Church became strained doing it. Perhaps to depict his unhappiness, he hid two miserable-looking self-portraits in "The Last
Judgment."He
painted his deceased face on
Holofernes
’ severed head and his ghoulish visage on Saint Bartholomew’s flayed skin
.