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Art In The Bible - Term Papers

Art In The Bible

An abstract look at a renaissance perception of the Bible
Table of Contents
Part 1 The Painting

Part 2 A compalation of abstract ideas

Part 3 Components of the picture

Part 4 A few thesis statements

Part 5 The essay

Art in the Bible

Many percieve this world as completly dichotomus. For many people they
will go through their whole life thinking that there is nothing in between black
and white. This may present a formidable situation for many, however, for
Michelangelo this was not clear enough. He took the Christian religion that was
important to him and the society that he lived in and percieved it a way more
accoustomed to the modern world. He created a sense of greyness in a world ...

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depicting the “bad”
scence, outside the garden of Eden. Michelangelo splits the picture like this so
that he can create the dichotomus world on which his painting will be based.
Although the whole theme is the non-dichotomusness of the world he must do this
so that people will have something to relate to. Once this has been achieved he
can continue to paint in the greyness whick joins the good and the evil. The
dichotomus world, however, serves a very important purpose in this picture. It
sets the defination of right and wrong. Michelangelo is trying to say that there
is not eivil and that there is no good. He knows that this cant be true. However
Michelangelo defines a black and a white, as two very separate and istinct
things. He does this by pining the picture in two parts and thus enabiling us to
see the difference. Once we have seen this very obvious difference we are
prepared to look at they grey.

Through the use of placement of objects in the picture Michelangelo is
able ...

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Added: 3/7/2008 10:13:08 PM
Category: Religion
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