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Michelangelo: English: Separation of Light from Darkness (

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Alternative names	Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Description	Italian painter, sculptor, architect, poet and inventor
Date of birth/death	6 March 1475	18 February 1564
Location of birth/death	Caprese Michelangelo	Rome
Work period	from 1487 until 1564 date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1487-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1564-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location	Florence (1487–1494), Bologna (1494–1496), Rome (1496–1501), Florence (1501–1505), Rome (1505–1506), Florence (1506–1508), Rome (1508–1516), Florence (1516–September 1529), Venice (September 1529–November 1529), Florence (November 1529–1532), Rome (1532–1533), Florence (1533), Rome (November 1533), Florence (1533–August 1534), Rome (1534–1564)
Authority file	: Q5592 VIAF: 24585191 ISNI: 0000000121243640 ULAN: 500010654 LCCN: n80152368 NLA: 36432281 WorldCat

Title

English: Separation of Light from Darkness

Object type

painting

Date

1511

Medium

fresco

Dimensions

height: 180 cm (70.8 in); width: 260 cm (102.3 in)

Collection

Sistine Chapel

	Native name	Cappella Sistina
	Parent institution	Apostolic Palace
	Location	Vatican, Rome, Italy , Monde
	Coordinates	41° 54′ 11″ N, 12° 27′ 16″ E
	Established	between 1473 and 1481 date QS:P,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1473-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1481-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
	Website	mv.vatican.va
	Authority file	: Q2943 LCCN: n96096549 NLA: 36437812 GND: 4104970-6 BNF: 139022841 J9U: 987007259293205171 WorldCat

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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti

(b. 1475, Caprese, d. 1564, Roma)

Separation of Light from Darkness 1511 Fresco, 180 x 260 cm Cappella Sistina, Vatican

Quite extraordinary and truly Titanic is the last fresco, smaller in size but sublime in conception: 'Let There be Light!', with God the Father self-begetting and therefore, in a sense, self diminishing. If he divides the light from the darkness it is the creation and manifestation of himself as light. This is a strangely abstract design, characterized by primitive and intentionally artless drawing. The anthropomorphous whirlwind in cosmíc travail is an awe-inspiring sight. The fresco is Michelangelo's first act of renunciation of his art as a flight into the divine, but he will return in many a lustrum to his tumult of moving bodies which are not of this world, but gigantic images of an inconceivable beauty projected by the mind. The artists of the Renaissance and their patrons were often pagans at heart, but not so Michelangelo. He was the truly medieval man, in whom religious zeal and the love of beauty were at war.

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Author: MICHELANGELO Buonarroti Title: Separation of Light from Darkness Time-line: 1501-1550 School: Italian Form: painting

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