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Monday, May 12, 2008

Sistine Chapel: twenty "Ignudi"

Twenty are the ignudi on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, image and word by Michelangelo; twenty nude males haunting my puzzle, cornering the five central frames. Angels or ideal human bodies (all in context, scanned from a book, here). It can also be food. Sticking with the nudes this time, "intermediary spirits between men and the Godhead". A serious gallery here.


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Oops, five missing. Who could ever think of making a 3000-piece jigsaw puzzle out of this ceiling.

"Michelangelo painted onto the damp plaster using a wash technique to apply broad areas of colour, then as the surface became drier, he revisited these areas with a more linear approach, adding shade and detail with a variety of brushes. For some textured surfaces, such as facial hair and woodgrain, he used a broad brush with bristles as sparse as a comb." (da wiki).
Here, the best overal perspective.

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