The High Renaissance


   

 
     
 Renaissance Art Map
   
         
     Michelangelo (Encyclopaedia Britannica)    
         
     Introduction    
     The middle years    
     The Medici Chapel    
     The last decades    
     Sistine Chapel    
     The Last Judgement    
     Drawings and Architectural works    
         
 
 

 

 


Frescoes in the Sistine Chapel


The Ceiling Frescoes


Biblical Scenes
        


Frescoes in the lunettes

(Ancestors of Christ)

 




 


Ancestors of Christ (Lunette and Popes)
1475-83, 1508-12
Fresco
Cappella Sistina, Vatican

 

 

                


Eleazar - Matthan

1511-12
Fresco, 215 x 430 cm
Cappella Sistina, Vatican

 

Jacob - Joseph

1511-12
Fresco, 215 x 430 cm
Cappella Sistina, Vatican

 

Achim - Eliud

1511-12
Fresco, 215 x 430 cm
Cappella Sistina, Vatican

 


Azor - Zadok

1511-12
Fresco
Cappella Sistina, Vatican

 


Zerubbabel - Abiud - Eliakim

1511-12
Fresco, 215 x 430 cm
Cappella Sistina, Vatican
 

Josiah - Jechoniah - Shealtiel

1511-12
Fresco, 215 x 430 cm
Cappella Sistina, Vatican
 

Hezekiah - Manasseh - Amon

1511-12
Fresco, 215 x 430 cm
Cappella Sistina, Vatican