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English: fresco painted by Michelangelo at the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican between 1508 to 1512

Date

between 1508 and 1512

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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

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MICHELANGELO di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

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

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

"Matthan begat Jacob. Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ." (Matthew 1:15-16)

At the top of the entrance wall of the chapel, to the right of the viewer, next to the Eleazar-Matthan lunette, there is the one concluding the genealogical sequence of the ancestors of Christ in the Gospel of St Matthew.

Sullen and perplexed, wrapped in a huge yellow ochre cloak and seemingly withdrawn, the old man - generally believed to be Jacob - dominates the family group on the left due to his expressive power and the quality of the colour. Similarly, on the right, the female figure, usually thought to be Mary, is more prominent than the other members of the Holy Family and the child holding a mirror. Behind Mary in the shadow, Joseph holds the Christ child, who stretches out an arm toward the round mirror held out at the height of his face by a naked female child, possibly an allegory of the Church.

The compositional schemes of the two neighbouring lunettes correspond: in both there is a female figure in the foreground seen in full, or half, profile and facing the outer wall of the chapel, and a male figure, on the internal side, with his torso seen frontally.

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Author: MICHELANGELO di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Title: Jacob - Joseph Time-line: 1501-1550 School: Italian Form: painting

Type: religious