Michelangelo’s Blueprints for the Sistine Chapel Ceiling (and also a wall) | Curator’s Corner S9 Ep4
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- Famously, Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Less famously, Michelangelo hated the Sistine Chapel ceiling - or at least the process of painting it. And we’re fairly certain that at the end of the 4-year process he swore he’d never do anything like it again.
But while he was a hugely successful artist, Michelangelo was a much less successful… not artist i.e. he was very bad at turning down work he didn’t want to do. Especially when he was asked to do it by the Pope.
So, 25 years after completing the ceiling, Michelangelo returned to paint the Sistine Chapel. This time, one of its walls. And while you might think that’s easier, the wall is huge, he was now 61-years-old, and also at some point he fell off the scaffolding. Join curator Grant Lewis as he takes you through Michelangelo’s process of conceptualizing, planning and painting the Sistine chapel - both the Creation of Adam and the Last Judgement. You'll get to spend time with Michelangelo's initial sketches and cartoons, right through to the final paintings. And if by the end of it you want to spend even more time with the great master's work, our exhibition all about Michelangelo is open until the end of July 2024.
Michelangelo: the last decades TICKETS: rb.gy/goojc4
Supported by James Bartos, Dunard Fund and a gift in memory of Melvin R. Seiden
Grant Lewis is The Milein Cosman Project Curator: Michelangelo: the last decades
www.cosmankellertrust.org/
CONTENT WARNING:The 16th century is famed for its artistic innovations, not it’s OHSAS 18001 compliance.
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Excellent talk, Grant !
Wish I were close enough to see the exhibit. Brilliant presentation, thank you.
What excellent delivery of the subject matter -- no stumbling over words; employment of a fine, rich vocabulary; and an unforced naturalness of speech pattern that makes this video seem unrehearsed and spoken extemporaneously 'from the heart '. We look forward to listening to many more lectures from this intelligent and personable speaker!
That was great. Thank very much.
Brilliant
Wonderful video. I saw the Michelangelo the last decades exhibition last week, which had many of these drawings, at the British Museum and can highly recommend it. For anyone interested in how he painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling I would highly recommend "Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling" by Ross King.
Thanks, I'll track it down.
Thank you for your book recommendation -- it's the second one I've read for this book, and I'm happy to say my local library has a copy!
Wonderful presentation, thank you! I wasn’t planning a trip to London but I now so very much want to see this exhibition.
Thank-you. Very interesting.
I'm glad to hear you pronounce the name as Michelangelo, and not Mike-langelo like lots of British people do.
Very good exhibition
Thank you so much, Grant. I am awed by Michelangelo. Any more you can share? If I could I'd be in London now to see your exhibition. Great presentation.
I remember reading somewhere that Michelangelo laid on his back in a scaffold to paint the ceiling. Also, he had painted all the characters and angels naked, but later the pope decided he wanted them covered. It was very interesting.
It would have only taken some mariachi and kangaroos to wiggle out of this commission. It worked with the Last Supper.
But joke aside, these are beautiful works, and an interesting video. Thanks.
Very cool
Absolutely mesmerizing!
❤very interesting! Cool! Thank you so mych
Great talk, thank you! Wish I could see this exhibition, alas I'm in Australia.
Glad to see he included God's wife and children in the final work.
He was canny good with a pencil like.
any plans for this exhibit. to get to nyc?
An excellent video! Bravo!!!! I wish you would have mentioned Daniele da Volterra (il Pantelone), though. my understanding is that when, a few decades ago, the draperies were removed (Daniele said that the binding medium he used was weak and could be easily removed), it was found that the penises had been chipped off. Is there any truth in this?
What is that paper made from? Anyone know?
Michelangelo primarily used handmade paper for his sketches and drawings. The paper available during his time, the Renaissance period (late 15th to early 16th centuries), was typically made from linen rags. This rag paper was durable, of high quality, and suitable for detailed drawing and sketching.
For more specific works, Michelangelo also used parchment (made from animal skin), particularly for more formal documents or important works. His choice of paper would have depended on the purpose of the drawing, the level of detail required, and the availability of materials.
From paper. Duh!
@@NeungView Paper can be derived from several various sources, such as wood pulp or linen fabric, as was the case here. The poster was curious what the source material for Michelangelo's paper was.
@@NeungViewnever heard of paper made from paper. You probably think that cakes are made from cakes...
I tried to make a donation to the British Museum, but apparently your software won't allow for italian credit cards...
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I had no idea these drawings were in the British Museum.
Are they part of the permanent collection or are they just on loan for this exhibition?
In the former case, how did they get there, of all places - England and the catholic world were not on the best terms for most of the 16th to tge 19th century, after all.
When will you return Chinese cultural relics? Do you know that the speed of Chang'e-6 returning to Earth reached Mach 31?
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Michelangelo’s Blueprints for the Sistine Chapel Ceiling (and also a wall) | Curator’s Corner S9 Ep4 1626pm 27.6.24 wracked on the wheel of their own vehicles of genius... no one is knocking the oeuvre. some new artistes up for scrutiny might be enjoyed, y'know...
Why does Adam have a navel?
I wonder if Michelangelo and his contemporaries even considered that logical conundrum.
@0:46 I like the subversiveness of this painting. It has been shown that the right hand side containing God exactly replicates the details of the human brain, suggesting he is a creation of the human mind, not the other way around. Also, Adam clearly has a belly button, which someone supposedly made from clay -- as opposed to being born with an umbilical cord -- would not have.
The problem with the belly button is not that Adam was made from clay but that he was made in the image of God. So why would God have a belly button? It is unlikely that Michelangelo knew that Jehovah had been a junior member of a pantheon who got promoted when his parents retired, like Zeus. Though he might have guessed it.
@@pattheplanter Very true. My other favourite is Caravaggio's Supper at Emmaus, where Jesus looks like a chubby over-dressed trickster who doesn't establish eye contact, and two of his disciples look like gullible old peasants, while the seen-it-all waiter looks on with an "oh yeah?" look on his face
Can you imagine if Pope Sixtus IV had AI do it.
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What?