Michelangelo: Sistine Chapel, details

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Jeremiah is probably my favourite fresco of the chapel, it resembles Rodin's penseur, the thinker. This is a beautiful representation of melancholy (see Dürer's Melancholy for a comparison), possibly the moral self-portrait of Michelangelo. Reflective on the frustration and hardship of earthly existence, sorrowful unto death, this is also the representation of a modern intellectual.

Sculptures | Sistine Chapel | Sistine Chapel: details | The Last Judgement, Tondo Doni | Michelangelo

The Creation of Adam Fresco Detail from The Sistine Chapel ceiling	The Creation of Adam, detail: God Fresco Detail from The Sistine Chapel ceiling
The Delphic Sibyl Fresco Detail from The Sistine Chapel ceiling	Hieremias (Jeremiah)
Hieremias (Jeremiah)

Sculptures | Sistine Chapel | Sistine Chapel: details | The Last Judgement, Tondo Doni | Michelangelo