Michelangelo And The Sistine Chapel (28 page)

Abraham

Abraham and Isaac
(bronze medallion)

Adam; in
The Creation of Adam
; in
The Creation of Eve
; in
The Temptation and Expulsion

Alberti, Leon Battista

Aldovrandi, Giovanni Francesco

Alexander VI, Pope

Alidosi, Cardinal

Ambrose, Saint

Aminadab

Ancestors of Christ, the; attributions; male lineage; female lineage; vacuity; in spandrels; meanings

angels

‘
animae rationali’

Anthony, St

apocalyptic anxiety

Apollo

Aram

architectural drawings

Ariosto, Ludovico

Aristotle

Ark, the, symbolism of

artists: role; status; patronage

‘Asa Josaphat Joram’

Ascension of Elijah, The
(bronze medallion)

Assumption of the Virgin, The
(Perugino)

Auerbach, Eric

Auerbach, Frank

Augustine, St

Baptistery, Florence

Barbieri, Filippo

Barque of Dante, The
(Delacroix)

Bartholomew, St

Battle of Anghiari, The
(Leonardo da Vinci)

Battle of Cascina, The
(Michelangelo)

Battle of the Centaurs
(Michelangelo)

Bertoldo, di Giovanni

Biagio da Cesena

Bible, the

Bologna

Borgia family

Borgia, Cesare

Botticelli

Bramante

Brancacci Chapel, Carmine

Brazen Serpent, The

brokenness

bronze figures

Brunelleschi

Buonarroti family

Buonarroti, Leonardo

Buonarroti, Lionardo

Buonarroti, Lodovico

Buonarroti, Michelangelo,
see
Michelangelo Buonarroti

Byzantine tradition

Cain and Abel

Cardiere

caricatures

Carmine

Carnevale, Domenico

Carrara

Casa Buonarroti, Florence

Castel Sant’Angelo

casualties, the sack of Rome

Cavatieri, Tommaso de’

chaos, portrayal of

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles VIII, King of France

Charon

Chirico, Giorgio de

Christianity, spread of

Christopher, St

Chronicles, Book of

City of God, The
(Augustine)

classical sculptures

classical sources

Clement VII, Pope

Colonna, Francesco

Colonna, Vittoria

conclave

Condivi, Ascanio: as M’s biographer; on M’s apprenticeship; and wet nurse story; on M’s attraction to the arts; on M in Lorenzo de’ Medici’s household; on M’s flight from Florence; on M’s meeting with Cardinal Riario; on commission to create tomb for Julius II on M’s refusal to return to Rome; on the Sistine Chapel ceiling; on M’s asceticism; on Savonarola’s influence; on lost picture of St Anthony; on
The Last Judgement
; on M’s reading of the Old Testament; on
Pietà

contrapposto

Conversion of St Paul
(Michelangelo)

Cortile del Belvedere, Rome

Creation, the, St Augustine’s ideas

Creation of Adam, The
: figures in God’s mantle; influences; misreading of; originality; portrayal of Adam; portrayal of Eve; portrayal of God;

Creation of Eve, The

Creation of Life in the Waters, The

Creation of the Sun, Moon and Plants, The

Cross, the, prefiguring of

Crucifixion, The
(Michelangelo)

Crucifixion of St Peter, The
(Michelangelo)

Crucifixion with two mourners, The
(Michelangelo)

Cupid
(Michelangelo)

Cumaean Sibyl, The

Daniel

Dante

David
(Michelangelo)

David and Goliath

De Doctrina Christiana
(Milton)

De spiritu et littera
(Augustine)

Death of Haman, The
, Delacroix, Eugène

Della Francesca, Piero

Della Roverre, Francesco

Delphic Sibyl, The

Deluge, The
; the Ark; attention to detail; composition; figures in; originality; Savonarola’s influence on; symbolism; theme

Discourses on Art
(Reynolds)

Disputa
, the (Raphael)

Divine Comedy, The
(Dante)

Donatello

Doni, Angelo

Doni Tondo
(Michelangelo)

Drunkenness of Bacchus, The
(Michelangelo)

Drunkenness of Noah, The

Eleazar

Erasmus, Desiderio

Erythraean Sybil, The

Esron

Esther

Eucharist, the

Eve

exploration

Ezekiel

faith, doctrine of justification through

Fall of Man

Fall of the Rebel Angels
, commission for

Final Conflict, the

Flemish tradition, the

Flight to Egypt

Florence

Casa Buonarroti

Palazzo della Signoria

Santa Maria Novella

Florence Pietà, The
(Michelangelo)

foreshortening

Francesco of Urbino, Maestro

Francis I, King of France

Freud, Sigmund

Galli, Jacopo

Genesis, references to

genii

Germany

Ghiberti, Lorenzo

Ghirlandaio, Domenico

Giles of Viterbo

Giovanni, of Pistoia

God: early portrayals; in
Separation of Light and Darkness
; in
Creation of Adam
; in
Creation of Eve
; in
The Creation of Life in the Waters
; in
The Creation of the Sun, Moon and Plants
; man’s relationship with; mercy; Old Testament

golden age

good and evil

Giovio, Paolo

Great Schism, the

green, symbolism of

grotesques

Hadrian VI, Pope

Haman

Hamlet
(Shakespeare)

Head of a Faun

Heraclitus

Holanda, Francisco de

Holkham Hall

Homeric legend

human form, use of

humanism

Hypnerotomachia Poliphilia
(Colonna)

I Vaticini delle Sibille
(Barbieri)

ignudi,
the

imaginative projection

indulgences, traffic in

Inferno
(Dante)

Isaac

Isaiah

Isaiah, the Book of

Jacob

Jacopo della Quercia

Jeremiah

Jesus Christ: attribution in the Ancestors of Christ; depictions of; depiction in
The Last Judgment
; Jonah as representation of; prefiguring of; redemptive sacrifice; sun as symbol for

Jewish tradition, Christian reinterpretation of

Jews, celebration of the death of Haman

Joachim of Fiore

Joel

Joel, the prophet

Joel, the Book of

John, the Book of

John the Baptist

Jonah

Jonah, the Book of

Joseph, father of Jesus

Joseph of Nicodemus

‘Josias Jechonias Salathiel’

Judas, son of Jacob

Judith and Holofernes
(Donatello)

Judith and Holofernes
(Michelangelo)

Julius Exclusus
(Erasmus)

Julius II, Pope: Giles of Viterbo’s portrayal of; election; character; Raphael portrait of; determination to regain papal lands from Borgias; plan to renovate Rome; achievements; commissions M to create tomb; cancels commission for tomb; refuses to pay M; orders M back to Rome; conquest of Bologna; commissions monumental statue of self; commissions M to paint Sistine Chapel ceiling; scheme for the Sistine Chapel ceiling; collector of classical sculpture; family emblems; M’s poetry about; succession

Kermode, Frank

Lactantius

landsknechts

Laocoön

Last Judgment, The
; depiction of Christ; figures; power of; style

Leo X, Pope

Leonardo da Vinci

Libyan Sibyl, The

Life of Michelangelo
(Condivi)

Lives of the Popes, The
(Platina)

Louvre, Paris

lunettes

Luther, Martin

Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects
(Vasari)

Madonna of the Stairs, The
(Michelangelo)

Mannerism (
maniera
)

Martin V, Pope

Mary, the Virgin: moon as symbol for; prefiguring of; attributions in the Ancestors of Christ; depiction in
The Last Judgment
; depictions of

Mary Magdalene
(Donatello)

Masaccio

Mass

Matthan

Matthew, Book of

Medici, Lorenzo de’ (il Magnifico)

Medici, Piero de’

Medici family, overthrow of

medieval tradition

Messianism

Michelangelo Buonarroti: wet nurse; family; apprenticeship and education; apprenticeship and education; in Lorenzo de’ Medici’s household; flight from Florence; Savonarola’s influence on; leaves Florence; talent recognised; commissioned to create tomb for Julius II 52—3; refusal to return to Rome; commissioned to create monumental statue of Julius II commissioned to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling; scheme for the Sistine Chapel ceiling; painting of ceiling; use of classical sources; autonomy; vision underlying ceiling; and Raphael; and the sack of Rome; Chief Architect, Sculptor and Painter to the Vatican palace; commissioned to paint
The Last Judgment
; breaks leg; drops planks on Pope; evolution in style; and Reformation; later style; on
Pietà

Milan

Milton, John

Minos

Mond Crucifixion
(Raphael)

moon, symbolism

Mordechai

mortality rates

Moses

Moses
(Michelangelo)