The Sistine Chapel Ceiling

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The Sistine Chapel
By Michelangelo Buonarroti

In Michelangelo’s painting on the Sistine Chapel contains a strong presence of God. The ideas and stories of the Bible lay at the surface of the entire ceiling. All these stories are taken from the book of Genesis which would not be possible without God. The scenes are placed in a time frame of an earlier world. The scenes can be analyzed in numerous ways that depend on the analyzers faith and interpretations of the beginning of time. In the next few paragraphs I’ll explain you how the Sistine Chapel ceiling was started, finished, and the Last Judgment.
The chapel contains nine stories divided into three trilogies: The creations of the world, the creation of man, and the story of Noah. All of these stories have a strong Godly presence as the viewer sees the creation, progression, and eventually the fall of man. The idea of God evolves from panel to panel by allowing the onlooker to consider God in three different situations forcing his role throughout each one. The establishment of the vision of diverse, yet related symbols of biblical foundations presents a sense of the supernatural divine world. The stories embody separate motifs, but the piece is expressed as a unified whole with God the only consistent presence in whether idea or visual portrayal. The order of the ceiling, according to the book of Genesis, should be read from the Separation of Light from Darkness to the Drunkenness of Noah, if the viewer reads in chronological order.
The Sistine Chapel ceiling is perhaps the most amazing painting ever created by man. It was finished by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1512. He started the project in 1508 and worked on the painting everyday in the four year period. It was brutal work that had to be done and he was not going stop until he was completed with the project. He had scalfilting system with ropes attached to the ceiling and a wooden board to support the wait of h...