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Michelangelo: English: Creation of the Sun, Moon, and Plants (detail) (

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Alternative names	Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Description	Italian painter, sculptor, architect, poet and inventor
Date of birth/death	6 March 1475	18 February 1564
Location of birth/death	Caprese Michelangelo	Rome
Work period	from 1487 until 1564 date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1487-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1564-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location	Florence (1487–1494), Bologna (1494–1496), Rome (1496–1501), Florence (1501–1505), Rome (1505–1506), Florence (1506–1508), Rome (1508–1516), Florence (1516–September 1529), Venice (September 1529–November 1529), Florence (November 1529–1532), Rome (1532–1533), Florence (1533), Rome (November 1533), Florence (1533–August 1534), Rome (1534–1564)
Authority file	: Q5592 VIAF: 24585191 ISNI: 0000000121243640 ULAN: 500010654 LCCN: n80152368 NLA: 36432281 WorldCat

Title

English: Creation of the Sun, Moon, and Plants (detail)

Object type

painting

Date

1511

Medium

fresco

Collection

Sistine Chapel

	Native name	Cappella Sistina
	Parent institution	Apostolic Palace
	Location	Vatican City, Rome, Italy , Monde
	Coordinates	41° 54′ 11″ N, 12° 27′ 16″ E
	Established	between 1473 and 1481 date QS:P,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1473-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1481-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
	Website	mv.vatican.va
	Authority file	: Q2943 LCCN: n96096549 NLA: 36437812 GND: 4104970-6 BNF: 139022841 J9U: 987007259293205171 WorldCat

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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti

(b. 1475, Caprese, d. 1564, Roma)

Creation of the Sun, Moon, and Plants (detail) 1511 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican

On the penultimate fresco of the Creation of the Sun, the Moon and the Plants it becomes clear that Michelangelo increasingly discarded iconographic and symbolic tradition. In the Creation of Woman, the Almighty is still standing upright in the 15th-century manner, but here the artist followed his own imagination. This, of course, entailed the danger of a lapse into obscurity and theatrical illusionism; to introduce a simple device from an early illuminated version of the Gospels into a composition treated in a more complex manner was bound to result in an impure style. On this fresco, God the Creator moving above the earth appears twice, once descending with a sweeping rhetorical gesture, and again wrathfully departing. The effect of this grandiose conception is not altogether satisfying. It is forced and lacking in the harmony that Michelangelo usually achieved with substance shown in a state of turmoil. The idea of uniting the third and fourth day of creation in a single composition was not a felicitous one.

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Author: MICHELANGELO Buonarroti Title: Creation of the Sun, Moon, and Plants (detail) Time-line: 1501-1550 School: Italian Form: painting

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