Michelangelo The Sistine Chapel Frescos

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to Florence for a number of assistance to help me with the fresco’s and thetechnique since I am somewhat hazy with the technique involved. I started my work onthe cartoons for the frescos. These 12 Apostles that I am commissioned to paint are soboring I must find a way around painting them in such a dull fashion. As we started to
paint the fresco’s I became very uninspired by the idea of the 12 apostles I was upset andconfused. I knew that this was not the right idea for the ceiling.(Redig De Campos, 170).
I talked with Julius today and we discussed the project. I told him that “It wasmuch to poor a thing to paint only the Apostles.” And when he asked why I replied“Because the Apostles, too, were poor.” He told me to paint as I please, and now I willthe only problem is I don’t quite know what is right yet.
I had a vision for the ceiling while outside daydreaming today. I will paint theCreation of Man and the Creation of the Universe, I will tie in the already existingfrescos ...

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is a sense of fear and terror among the crowd of people who are about to be wipedaway from the earth. I want the wind to be a great force in this fresco to give the effectof a great storm. The trees are about to be uprooted and the people will run for shelterand higher ground. This painting of the great flood is very real and believable.(Camesasca, 91).
My next fresco, The Fall of Man features the temptation of Adam and Eve to eatfrom the Tree of Knowledge and their expulsion. I divided the two events with the Treeof Knowledge in the middle with its branches outstretched across the top of the painting.
On the left side of the painting Eve reaches out toward to grab fruit ...

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