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    to his family for a short period of time, as indicated by tax records, Botticelli continued his career with the support of the Medici family, one of the most powerful families in Florence, Italy. He left Florence in 1480 to help decorate the Sistine Chapel in Rome with some of his art which only the most famous painters of that time were invited to do. In 1482, Botticelli returned to Florence and shortly

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    His work was placed in churches, chapels, and royal chambers among other places. He traveled with his work and found new friends in his journeys. After searching for a reasonable commission he finally settled down in Florence where he stayed for many years. He fell in love with the city

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    The Last Judgement. Jean Cousin Jean Cousin rendition of the disclosure to John in Revelation14: 14-17 provided the scriptural inspiration for Cousin's Last Judgment with a flair of Florentine mannerism and Flemish influences in which the relevant passage reads “14 I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man[a] with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. 15 Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice

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    in Schlitt’s text as saying that “the excessive number and shameful representation of the nudes made it better suited to a bath house or tavern than to the honored place it occupied.” Michelangelo was so committed to making every person in the Sistine Chapel naked, which was to

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    Thesis Statement In my research, I have seen how Raphael individually personifies what the High Renaissance encircles. I.     Early Life      A.     Childhood      B.     Family      C.     Father as court painter                 &nb

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    Michelangelo was never satisfied with it though, and he never did get to finish it to his full satisfaction. The tomb is mostly known for its statue of Moses which was completed in 1516. Around the same time Michelangelo also painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, this one took four years to complete and started in 1508 to be finished in 1512. Now a man named Bramante hated the fact that the Pope Julius commissioned Michelangelo and manipulated the Pope to make Michelangelo create the tomb in a medium

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    Michelangelo is one of the most well-known artists of all time, with many masterpieces attributed to him including the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel which stays one in every of his maximum famous initiatives. Michelangelo, like any other artists did now not create his artwork honestly from spontaneous notion of invention. He changed into stimulated by many various factors which include faith and other philosophies that have been actively practiced in society. His specialty and even his compositions

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    III. The Figural Strategies of Eve Analysis of the Fall of Man The strategies utilized to portray the mythical nature of Eve within the Italian Renaissance represent both the shame and seduction that the archetype promotes.The Fall of Man by Michelangelo depicts the the temptation of Eve by the serpent in the garden and the subsequent exile from Eden based upon disobedience to God surrounding the consumption of the forbidden fruit (Genesis 3:6-3:10).The affirmation of the Church’s ideology on the

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    In comparing and contrasting the Last Judgment (1527) by Lucas van Leyden (1494-1533) and the Sistine Chapel Last Judgment (1535–1541) by Michelangelo (1475-1564), the subject matter of each is the artist’s interpretation of the Last Judgment; the day which follows Armageddon when each individual’s fate will be determined by God according to the good and evil of the individual’s earthly life. Leyden who was almost twenty years younger than Michelangelo had a distinctively different interpretative

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