A Criação de Adão de Michelangelo: re-writing and characteristics

A Criação de Adão It is a fresh painting by Michelangelo not owned by Capela Sistina between the years 1508 and 1510, at the request of Pope Julius II.

O afresco integrates a set of paintings that compõem o teto da Capela Sistina, where Michelangelo represents various biblical dinners and prophetic figures.

Between them, A Criação de Adão It is the most iconic, welcoming the admiration of all the visitors. Considered his cousin work, he renders Michelangelo an enormous prestige, making him one of the two greatest artists of History.

Image composition and main elements

Nessa work or artist represents an important passage from Livro do Gênesis: the moment when Deus creates or first home, Adão.

It is about a narrative. Michelangelo tells a story through the image, capturing or instant not which human life is ready to begin.

A representation of Deus

DeusOn the direct side, he is represented as a homem mais velho, with beards and white hair, symbols of wisdom, but embracing a young and vigorous physical form. The artist is based on the biblical stories that reveal his physiognomy.

He is wrapped in a cloak, where he carries his eyes. As a skeleton arm, she embraces a feminine figure, usually interpreted as being Eva, a first woman, who was not yet raised and waits for us, together with Pai.

A representation of Adão

AdãoOn his side, he is a young home, and he is seated in a meadow, as a bent body, a lânguida position, as he has just agreed.

Even though he is forced, he stretches towards me in the direction of the imposing figure of Deus, waiting for him to approach him to transmit him to life.

His fingers are almost touched

No center, these are you indicator fingers of both, with a small space between them, highlighted by empty hair in painting that does not deixa nenhuma distração for or what to see.

The arm of Adão is bent and his finger is fallen, without the fraqueza do homem, as opposed to the posture of Deus, as an extended arm and or a stickened finger, sublinhando or gesture of his breeder power.

The members are symmetrical, have a very similar constitution, making reference to biblical passage "Deus criou o homem à sua imagem e semelhança"(Genesis, 1:27).

Assim, through desta symmetryMichelangelo establishes a balance between the two sides of the fresh fruit, between the divine figure and the human figure.

Note-also antecipação, or waiting time to or which image led us; It is very close, the fingers do not really know how to play.

Human anatomy and possible subliminal mensagem

Outra more recent interpretation, supported by some scholars, is that as you double the criam or exato mantle format of a human brain, not the center of what is Deus.

This theory was formulated for the first time, in 1990, by an American surgery that you should visit or the Vatican partilhou to his discovered like the rest of the world.

In the image, different parts of the brain (frontal wolf, otic nerve, glandular pituitária e cerebellum), or that seems possible, since the artist has vast knowledge of anatomy.

The thought of the epoch contributed to this hypothesis, because it placed or Homem not the center of everything and valued its uncovered scientific and philosophical. Assim, or the touch of Deus em Adão could be interpreted as a symbol of rationalism.

Curiosities about painting A Criação de Adão

An interesting fact about the creation of the work and that Michelangelo felt pressured to oil or invite Pope Julius II to paint or Teto da Capela SistinaOnce he preferred to concentrate, not his work as a sculptor.

Another curious detail is that the pointer finger of Adão, some of the most reproduced and famous parts of the image, was not painted by Michelangelo. The original was damaged by a loss, and was later painted by a restorer from the Vatican.

Re-music of A criação de Adão

A criação de Adão It has become an icon of art history and was widely used as a reference for other works and creations. Assim, ganhou many re-writings and it was constituted, even, a symbol of pop culture.

Uma dessas re-music by the American artist Harmonia Rosales, which replaced the original figures with black women, tracing new meanings to the origin of the creation.

About Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born in Caprese, Italy, on March 6, 1475.

For more than seven decades, he worked in various artistic disciplines (painting, sculpture, architecture and poetry), cities of Florença and Rome, where the seus patrons will live, among those who will highlight the Medici family and some popes Romans.

In 1505, Michelangelo devoted himself internally to a sculpture project, or tomb of the Pope, but he ended up being overlooked by another artist.

Not later, he was invited to paint or to the Capela Sistina and recused for two years, feeling slighted, because he considered painting a minor art.

In 1508, no longer able to resist the press of the Church, he ended up oiling or working for four years to show his talents and artistic gifts.

Além from A criação de Adão, he produced very famous works, icons in western culture, such as:

• A Pietà (1499)
• David (1504)
• Bacchus (1497)
• Last Judgment (1541)

Michelangelo Morreu on February, not on February 18, 1564, in Rome. He was two great genres of his time, becoming eternalized in Art History as one of the two greatest breeders of the Western world.

Renascimento, Humanism and Rationalism

OR Revival It was a period of European History, between the end of the fourteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth century. Characterized by the return to cultural and artistic references from classical antiquity, it is assumed as a movement of rediscovery of the world and of Homem.

O fundamental principle of the era was o Humanism, which is devoted to the study of scriptures and pays more attention to human sciences as to Philosophy, Rhetoric and Mathematics, placing or focus not Homem above all things (anthropocentrism).

Na mesma linha, surgiu o Rationalism, philosophical current that defended that absolute truth could hardly be understood through human reason.

Therefore, or logical reasoning innate to human beings, when worked and exercised through mental operations and questions, it would be on the sole basis of true knowledge.

See two fresh fruits from Capela Sistina for a complete analysis.

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