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Michelangelo: The Separation of the Earth and Waters

Artist



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: Separation of the Earth from the Waters

Part of

Sistine Chapel ceiling

Object type

painting

Genre

religious art

Date

1511

Medium

fresco

Dimensions

height: 155 cm (61 in); width: 270 cm (106.2 in)

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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part of: Sistine Chapel ceiling
based on: Old Testament

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Gallery of the Sistine Chapel ceiling

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Usage on el.wikipedia.org
- Κατάλογος έργων του Μιχαήλ Αγγέλου
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- תקרת הקפלה הסיסטינית
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- Galeri langit-langit Kapel Sistina
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- Storie della Genesi
- Separazione della terra dalle acque
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- Existência de Deus
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- Dumnezeu
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- Galerija stropa Sikstinske kapele
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- Sixtinska kapellets takfresker
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- 划分水陆

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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti

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

Separation of the Earth from the Waters 1511 Fresco, 155 x 270 cm Cappella Sistina, Vatican

A divergent meaning has been read into this fresco by the earlier biographers, Condivi and Vasari. The spirit of God with the heavenly host moves above the waters; so they thought in terms of the creation of the great Sea Monster. But the main emphasis is on the moving ('ferabatur super aqua' in Saint Jerome) and the hallowing gesture; the title 'God Blesses the World' is indicated. If we consider further that the creative spirit advances from the great depth of space suggested by his mantle, which is formed like a gigantic shell, we come to think of the Waters of the Abyss and the emanation of soul substance, frequently described as a watery element in the mythologies and metaphysical systems af mankind.

This fresco depicts a stage prior to the creation of man. Three cherubim are half hidden in the cosmic cloak, as though foreshadowing the Holy Trinity. And, as though he embodied the World Soul, the figure of God the Father with his powerful hands fills almost the entire space. Michelangelo's realism, fed on the astonishing symbiosis of the Middle Ages and Antiquity, perfectly expressed the place, the task and destiny of man during his journey back to the source of being. His art illustrates the incarnation of the spirit, free will, and the perversely self imposed fetters of guilt and evil. However much melancholia assailed him, aware as he was of the flaw in creation, in the Sistina he has contributed to the world's deliverance. Whoever studies Michelangelo's frescoes there does something towards his own purification.

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Author: MICHELANGELO Buonarroti Title: Separation of the Earth from the Waters Time-line: 1501-1550 School: Italian Form: painting

Type: religious

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