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Poster:
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Icarusfree
(see this users gallery)
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Views:
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2165
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Date:
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Thu Sep 2, 2004
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Filesize:
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541.2k, 358.3k
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Dimensions:
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600 x 900
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Description:
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Michelangelo Buonarroti was commissioned by Pope Julius II della Rovere in 1508 to repaint the ceiling; the work was completed between 1508 and 1512. He painted the Last Judgement over the altar, between 1535 and 1541, being commissioned by Pope Paul III Farnese.
this particular painting, The Last Judgement was object of a heavy dispute between Cardinal Carafa and Michelangelo: the artist was accused of immorality and intolerable obscenity, having depicted naked figures, with genitals in evidence, inside the most important church of Christianity, so a censorship campaign was organized by Carafa and Monsignor Sernini (Mantua's ambassador) to remove the frescoes. When the Pope's own Master of Ceremonies, Biagio da Cesena, similarly denounced the work by saying that the work was more suited to a bath-house than a chapel, Michelangelo worked his semblance into the scene as Minos, judge of the underworld. It is said that when da Cesena complained to the Pope, the pontiff responded that his jurisdiction did not extend to hell, so the portrait would have to remain. In coincidence with Michelangelo's death, a law was issued to cover genitals ("Pictura in Cappella Ap.ca coopriantur"). So Daniele da Volterra, an apprentice of Michelangelo that after this work was nicknamed "Braghettone", covered with sort of perizomas (briefs) the genitals, leaving unaltered the complex of bodies. When the work was restored in 1993, the restorers chose not to remove the perizomas of Daniele; however, a faithful, uncensored copy of the original, by Marcello Venusti, is now in Naples, at the Capodimonte Museum.
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Keywords:
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Vaticano, Italy, Landmark
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Photo URL:
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http://www.bytegallery.com/data/3185/4webRomaCapellaSixtina13-med.jpg
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| File name: |
webRomaCapellaSixtina13.jpg |
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366910 bytes |
| File date: |
2004:09:02 17:10:55 |
Camera make: |
Canon |
| Camera model: |
Canon EOS 10D |
Date/Time: |
2004:06:02 08:35:36 |
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600 x 900 |
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No |
| Focal length: |
28.0mm (35mm equivalent: 152mm) |
CCD width: |
6.64mm |
| Exposure time: |
0.100 s (1/10) |
Aperture: |
f/3.5 |
| ISO equiv.: |
3,200 |
Metering Mode: |
matrix |
| Jpeg process: |
Baseline |
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