Michelangelo (1475 – 1564)

Title: David

Artist: Michelangelo

Date: 1501-1504

Source/ Museum: Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence

Medium: Marble

Size: height 17' (5.18 m)

Palazzo VecchioPiazza della Signoria

Title: Interior, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome, Itlay

Date: Built 1475-1480. Ceiling painted 1508-1512; wall behind altar painted 1536-1541

Title: Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel Ceiling. Vatican, Rome, Italy. 1508-1512

Artist: Michelangelo

Date: 1508-1512

Diagram of the fresco decoration of the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel comprises frescoes and a set of tapestries. They are the work of different artists and are part of a number of different commissions, some of which were in conflict with each other.

Title: The Creation of Adam. Portion of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Vatican, Rome, Italy. 1508-1512

Artist: Michelangelo

Date: 1508-1512

Title: Studies for the Libyan Sibyl

Artist: Michelangelo

Date: 1508-1512

Source/ Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1924 (24.197.2)

Medium: red chalk

Size: 11 3/8 x 8 7/16" (28.9 x 21.4 cm)

Title: The Last Judgment, Sistine Chapel

Artist: Michelangelo

Date: 1534–1541

Medium: fresco

Title: The Last Judgment, (detail with self-portrait), Sistine Chapel

Artist: Michelangelo

Date: 1534-1541

Source/ Museum: n/a

Medium: fresco

Size: n/a

Casena as Minos (Midas?)

Angels trumpets and the Archangel Michael

St Bartholomew holds his own skin-- St. Lawrence with grate

• The boatman Charon (s)

• At the bottom of the painting the boatman Charon is ferrying the damned into hell.

• Charon is the mythical boatman of Roman and Greek mythology who ferried the damned to hell.