Michelangelo And The Sistine Chapel (29 page)

Naasson

Neo-Platonic philosophy

Nicholas V, Pope

Nicodemus

Noah

nudes

Numbers, Book of

‘Odysseus’s Scar’ (Auerbach)

Old Testament

Oration on the Dignity of Man
(Pico della Mirandola)

Original Sin

Orsanmichele

Pagnini, Sante

Palazzo della Signoria, Florence

Papal Chapel

Paradise Lost
(Milton)

Pater, Walter

Paul III, Pope

Persian Sibyl, The

perspective

Perugino

Peter, St

Petrarch

Phares

Picasso, Pablo

Pico della Mirandola

Piermatteo d’Amelia

Piero di Cosimo

Pietà
(Michelangelo)

Platina

Plato

poetry

Poliziano, Angelo

Porta Magna of San Petronio

profil perdu

prophets and sibyls

Jonah
; meanings; the prophets; revelations; the sibyls

Proverbs

Psalms, Book of

Purgatorio
(Dante)

putti

Raphael;
The School of Athens

Ravenna

Reformation, the

renunciation, spirit of

Revelation, Book of

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Riario, Cardinal

Ripa Grande

Rodin, Auguste

Romagna, the

Roman art

Rome: Cortile del Belvedere; Piazza San Pietro; renovation of; sack of; St Peter’s; Via Giulia; Via Lungara

Rondanini Pietà, The
(Michelangelo)

Ruskin, John

Sacco, Giuliano

Sacrifice of Noah, The

Saint Denis, Abbey of

St George
(Donatello)

St John the Baptist
(Donatello)

St Peter’s

‘Salmon Booz Obed’

Samuel, Book of

San Gallo brothers

San Petronio, Bologna

Sangallo, Giuliano da

Santa Maria Novella, Florence

Santo Spirito

Savonarola, Girolamo

scaffolding

School of Athens, The
(Raphael)

Second Coming, the, proclaimed

secrets

Separation of Light and Darkness, The

serpent, the

sexual desire

Shakespeare, William

Siena

Signorelli

simony

Sistine Chapel
;
the Ark as symbol for; dimensions; popes’ portraits; rebuilding of; role; wall frescos

Sistine Chapel ceiling
(see also individual parts of ceiling)
: achievement; bronze figures; Christian perspective; commission; first scheme; Genesis cycle; gilding; lunettes; meaning; medallions; originality; painting of; pictorial language; plan
;
sketches and studies; spandrels; structure; theology; restoration; scale; subjects

Sixtus IV, Pope

Soderini, Piero

sotto in sù

Stanza della Segnatura, the

Steinberg, Leo

Suger, Abbot Denis

sun, symbolism

Superman

Temptation and Expulsion, The

Thinker, The
(Rodin)

Thompson, Damian

Tolnay, Charles de

Torrigiano, Pietro

Tourabuoni Chapel, Santa Maria Novella

transgression

Trinity, The
(Masaccio)

Valdes, Juan de

Vasari, Giorgio: on
The Battle of Cascina
; on
David
; on
The Death of Haman
; description of scaffolding; the ‘divine Michelangelo’; on
The Drunkenness of Bacchus
; on the
ignudi
; on
The Last Judgment
; M and Piero de’ Medici; M drops planks on Pope; M in Lorenzo de’ Medici’s household; on the medallions; on M’s apprenticeship; on M’s asceticism; M’s assistance; on M’s assistants; on M’s discomfort; M’s first meeting with Lorenzo de’ Medici; on M’s sexuality; on M’s technique; on
Pietà
; on
The Sacrifice of Noah
; on the spandrel paintings; and wet nurse story

Vatican Library

Vatican Palace

Via Giulia, Rome

Via Lungara, Rome

Vigerio, Marco

Virgil

wisdom, portrayal of

Wohl, Hellmut

Zechariah

Zuccone
(Donatello)