Michaelangelo1475-1564

• Italian Renaissance (rebirth)

• Painter and Sculptor

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Sistine Chapel 1508-15125,000 square feet of ceiling (5 times this art room /3 stories higher)

Ceiling/upper walls by Michelangelo; 12,000 sq. feet of painting,Lower Walls by other artists

Sistine Chapel Curved Ceiling at the Vatican in Rome

350 figures included, 9 Bible stories from the book of Genesisupper sides contained prophets and ancestors of Christ

A closer look at the storyFresco - paint and wet plaster

Notice the line quality

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