Read Michelangelo And The Sistine Chapel Online
Authors: Andrew Graham-Dixon
Naasson
Neo-Platonic philosophy
Nicholas V, Pope
Nicodemus
Noah
nudes
Numbers, Book of
‘Odysseus’s Scar’ (Auerbach)
Old Testament
Oration on the Dignity of Man
(Pico della Mirandola)
Original Sin
Orsanmichele
Pagnini, Sante
Palazzo della Signoria, Florence
Papal Chapel
Paradise Lost
(Milton)
Pater, Walter
Paul III, Pope
Persian Sibyl, The
perspective
Perugino
Peter, St
Petrarch
Phares
Picasso, Pablo
Pico della Mirandola
Piermatteo d’Amelia
Piero di Cosimo
Pietà
(Michelangelo)
Platina
Plato
poetry
Poliziano, Angelo
Porta Magna of San Petronio
profil perdu
prophets and sibyls
Jonah
; meanings; the prophets; revelations; the sibyls
Proverbs
Psalms, Book of
Purgatorio
(Dante)
putti
Raphael;
The School of Athens
Ravenna
Reformation, the
renunciation, spirit of
Revelation, Book of
Reynolds, Sir Joshua
Riario, Cardinal
Ripa Grande
Rodin, Auguste
Romagna, the
Roman art
Rome: Cortile del Belvedere; Piazza San Pietro; renovation of; sack of; St Peter’s; Via Giulia; Via Lungara
Rondanini Pietà, The
(Michelangelo)
Ruskin, John
Sacco, Giuliano
Sacrifice of Noah, The
Saint Denis, Abbey of
St George
(Donatello)
St John the Baptist
(Donatello)
St Peter’s
‘Salmon Booz Obed’
Samuel, Book of
San Gallo brothers
San Petronio, Bologna
Sangallo, Giuliano da
Santa Maria Novella, Florence
Santo Spirito
Savonarola, Girolamo
scaffolding
School of Athens, The
(Raphael)
Second Coming, the, proclaimed
secrets
Separation of Light and Darkness, The
serpent, the
sexual desire
Shakespeare, William
Siena
Signorelli
simony
Sistine Chapel
;
the Ark as symbol for; dimensions; popes’ portraits; rebuilding of; role; wall frescos
Sistine Chapel ceiling
(see also individual parts of ceiling)
: achievement; bronze figures; Christian perspective; commission; first scheme; Genesis cycle; gilding; lunettes; meaning; medallions; originality; painting of; pictorial language; plan
;
sketches and studies; spandrels; structure; theology; restoration; scale; subjects
Sixtus IV, Pope
Soderini, Piero
sotto in sù
Stanza della Segnatura, the
Steinberg, Leo
Suger, Abbot Denis
sun, symbolism
Superman
Temptation and Expulsion, The
Thinker, The
(Rodin)
Thompson, Damian
Tolnay, Charles de
Torrigiano, Pietro
Tourabuoni Chapel, Santa Maria Novella
transgression
Trinity, The
(Masaccio)
Valdes, Juan de
Vasari, Giorgio: on
The Battle of Cascina
; on
David
; on
The Death of Haman
; description of scaffolding; the ‘divine Michelangelo’; on
The Drunkenness of Bacchus
; on the
ignudi
; on
The Last Judgment
; M and Piero de’ Medici; M drops planks on Pope; M in Lorenzo de’ Medici’s household; on the medallions; on M’s apprenticeship; on M’s asceticism; M’s assistance; on M’s assistants; on M’s discomfort; M’s first meeting with Lorenzo de’ Medici; on M’s sexuality; on M’s technique; on
Pietà
; on
The Sacrifice of Noah
; on the spandrel paintings; and wet nurse story
Vatican Library
Vatican Palace
Via Giulia, Rome
Via Lungara, Rome
Vigerio, Marco
Virgil
wisdom, portrayal of
Wohl, Hellmut
Zechariah
Zuccone
(Donatello)