of the great ones was Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti (1475-1564) the Italian artist who among his works has the statue of David, and the painting of the Last Judgment fresco in the Sistine Chapel. The statue of David, when looking at this statue that was carved from one single block of marble you notice how Michelangelo was able to get the muscle contractions of the arms and legs in a realistic manner. The statue shows David, the future king of Israel, from the Old Testament story of David and Goliath. The statue expresses not only the daring young David who challenges the giant Goliath, but it is also believed that the statue is a self-portrait of Michelangelo as he used himself as a model for the muscles, hands and other details of the statue. Michelangelo was strongly inspired by the values of the mannerism and the statues of the old Greece, which can be seen in the details of David but also his great masterpiece or rather pieces – his painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Michelangelo’s decorations in the Sistine Chapel tell the biblical stories of the Genesis, Adam and Eve, and Noah. But also his painting of The Last Judgment, where Michelangelo paints Christ’s second coming and the end of the world. (add a verb to this to make it a sentence)The painting is enormous, and it takes up the entire wall behind the alter in the chapel. It has its focus on Christ whose right arm is striking down the damned, while the left arm seems gently to call the blessed toward him. At Christ’s side is the Virgin Mary, who symbolizes the figure of mercy as she looks down on the saints who emerge from their graves. In the lower right corner is there a scene of hell, but unlike other visualizations of hell from that time who usually portrayed Satan and the torments of hell, this scene is inspired on the Inferno from Dante’s The Divine Comedy. The Last Judgment and many of Michelangelo’s other w...
