In his 1990 speech to Kenyon College graduates, Watterson revealed that during his last year he had painted Michelangelo's Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel on the ceiling of his dorm room:

*" The Creation of Adam ", a section of Michelangelo's fresco Sistine Chapel ceiling painted circa 1511

" Critics compared the Socrates with Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling and Raphael's Stanze, and one, after ten visits to the Salon, described it as " in every sense perfect ".

The series has been described as " the most essential to our understanding of the human condition in modern times, just as Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling is essential to understanding the tenor of the 16th century ".

These groups were for long the most frequently painted ; works such as Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling are therefore history paintings, as are most very large paintings before the 19th century.

And yet, despite the imagination and brilliance of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, it is still quite easy to identify the saint depicted because the traditional attribute and appearance of Peter is still present.

Ignudi from Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling

The Libyan Sibyl from Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling

Michelangelo's painting of the sin of Adam and Eve from the Sistine Chapel ceiling

Several of Michelangelo's greatest works ( including the painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel ) were commissioned by Julius.

Zechariah as depicted on Michelangelo's ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Raphael was clearly influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling in the course of painting the room.

Among his first acts as Pope was to cut off Michelangelo's pension, and he ordered the nudes of The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel be painted more modestly ( a request that Michelangelo ignored ).

In 1508 Michelangelo's image of the Israelites deliverance from the plague of serpents by the creation of the bronze serpent on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Although the ceiling is riotously rich in illusionistic elements, the narratives are framed in the restrained classicism of High Renaissance decoration, drawing inspiration from, yet more immediate and intimate, than Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling as well as Raphael's Vatican Logge and Villa Farnesina frescoes.

He studied under Michelangelo, working on the Sistine Chapel, in the Vatican, painting the Fall of the Angels in the facade facing Michelangelo's Last Judgment.

According to Ann Sutherland Harris, " The Galleria frescoes make even more extensive use of ancient sculptural and architectural sources, and in addition take their basic structure from two ceilings by the most prestigious artists of the High Renaissance in Rome, the Loggia of Psyche by Raphael and Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling ".

Many of the greatest paintings in Europe, like Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling are executed in fresco, meaning they are painted on a thin layer of wet plaster, called intonaco ( in fact the general term for plaster in Italian ); the pigments sink into this layer so that the plaster itself becomes the medium holding them, which accounts for the excellent durability of fresco.

The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo's work in the Sistine Chapel.

The brand image of the programme is an animated version of a detail from Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling painting, specifically the image of the Hand of God giving life to Adam.

They are the only surviving members of a set of ten cartoons commissioned by Pope Leo X for tapestries for the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican Palace, which are still ( on special occasions ) hung below Michelangelo's famous ceiling.

In the 1959 Ben-Hur, the opening credits were seen against the background of the " Creation of Man " in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling.

The Creation of Adam is a section of Michelangelo's fresco Sistine Chapel ceiling painted circa 1511.

The Sistine Chapel, a collection of essays on aspects of the chapel, its decoration and the restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes, by Carlo Pietrangeli, André Chastel, John Shearman, John O ' Malley S. J., Pierluigi de Vecchi, Michael Hirst, Fabrizio Mancinelli, Gianluigi Colallucci, and Franco Bernabei.

The Theology behind Michelangelo's Ceiling in The Sistine Chapel, ed.

In later life he frequently occupied himself with the burin, publishing, in 1834, a series of outlines from Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, and, in 1840, superintending the issue of a selection of plates from the pictures in Buckingham Palace, one of them, a Titian landscape, being engraved in mezzotint by himself.

Also whilst in Italy Watts began producing landscapes and was inspired by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel and Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel.

The ceiling, and especially The Last Judgment ( 1535 – 1541 ), is widely believed to be Michelangelo's crowning achievement in painting.

Although Michelangelo's complex design for the ceiling was not quite what his patron, Pope Julius II, had in mind when he commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Twelve Apostles, the scheme displayed a consistent iconographical pattern.

Reproduced in the form of prints, they rivalled Michelangelo's ceiling as the most famous and influential designs of the Renaissance, and were well known to all artists of the Renaissance and Baroque.

Also of interest to some modern scholars is the question of how Michelangelo's own spiritual and psychological state is reflected in the iconography and the artistic expression of the ceiling.

Within Michelangelo's own work, the chapel ceiling led to the later and more Mannerist painting of the Last Judgement in which the crowded compositions gave full rein to his inventiveness in painting contorted and foreshortened figures expressing despair or jubilation.

Together with Michelangelo's ceiling frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, they are the grand fresco sequences that mark the High Renaissance in Rome.

Then he thought of those Old Testament figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

* 1483 – Opening of the Sistine Chapel in Rome with the celebration of a Mass.

* 1483 – Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel.

The tradition of conservation in Europe some consider to have begun in 1565 with the restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes.

An example of a highly publicized interventive conservation effort would be the conservation work conducted on the Sistine Chapel.

The Prophet Joel as imagined by Michelangelo ( Fresco, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, 1508 – 1512 )

File: Adam study-Michelangelo. jpg | Michelangelo-Studies of a reclining male nude: Adam in the fresco ' The Creation of Man ' on the vault of the Sistine Chapel ( c. 1511 )

There were certainly castrati in the Sistine Chapel choir in 1558, although not described as such: on 27 April of that year, Hernando Bustamante, a Spaniard from Palencia, was admitted ( the first castrati so termed who joined the Sistine choir were Pietro Paolo Folignato and Girolamo Rossini, admitted in 1599 ).

Saint Peter's Basilica and the Sistine Chapel were used for horses.

Pope Sixtus IV is known for having built the Sistine Chapel, which is named for him.

Fresco Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City | Vatican, Rome, Italy.

* Sistine Chapel Wall series: Botticelli, Perugino, Rossellini, Signorelli, and Ghirlandaio

Here he composed a large number of motets and other sacred music, which, being brought to the notice of Pope Urban VIII, obtained for him an appointment in the choir of the Sistine Chapel at Rome with the contralto role.

However, his work for the Sistine Chapel is descended from the Palestrina style, and in some cases strips even this refined, simple style of all ornament.

The Miserere has for many years been sung annually during Holy Week in the Sistine Chapel.

Michelangelo depicted a scene at the Garden of Eden in the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

Isaiah, by Michelangelo, ( c. 1508-1512, Sistine Chapel ceiling, Vatican City ).

On 28 February 1476, Pope Sixtus IV, a Franciscan after whom the Sistine Chapel is named, authorized those dioceses that wished to introduce the feast to do so, and introduced it to his own diocese of Rome in 1477, with a specially composed Mass and Office of the feast.

His Sistine Chapel ceiling provided examples for other artists to follow, in particular the figures of ignudi and of the Libyan Sibyl.