Describe how Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes and Raphael’s Vatican Library frescoes illustrate the connection between ancient Greece and the Christian world of Renaissance Italy.
I can see the connection between the two times with the sculptures but I can't pinpoint the connection with these two frescoes.
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Ancient Greece is much more than statues.There are many levels to this. Ancient Greece is about logic, education, sciences, harmony, philosophy, beauty and so much more.
About Michelangelo now. First a more general common thing with the ancient greek art is that even i there are too many people in the frescoes and too bright colors, the total feeling of the room is still harmonious and simple. This unfortunately you cannot realise from the photos because the room looks usually too much in the photos. But if you visit it you will understand the harmony and simplicity. They don't overpower the room they just decorate it! Like the ancient greek building that were full of bright colors and statues and decorations of each type but still the total feeling is harmonious and simple. In ancient greece and in the italy of the Renaissance they used mathematical rules for this.
Another point really important is that it was the first time after the ancient greece that somebody could draw the human figure with so perfectly, with so much detail and in every strange position. He study anatomy. The bodies look like ancient greek sculptures. Don't forget that he was a sculpturer not a painter! Almost all the fresces but mostly the Creation of Adam was without precedent simplicity, power, and beauty as in the ancient greek art.
About Raphael now. By Vatican Library i guess you mean la Stanza della Segnatura. He combined the two worlds! The artist's concept brings into harmony the spirits of Antiquity and Christianity and reflects the contents of the pope's library with themes of theology, philosophy, jurisprudence, and the poetic arts, represented in tondi above the lunettes of the walls. The theme of this room is worldly and spiritual wisdom and the harmony which Renaissance humanists perceived between Christian teaching and Greek philosophy.
Also he as most of the renaissance painters used for his compositions complex geometry rules.
Raphael's works seem so simple and easy like the ancient greek art. But this simplcity was not easy t achieve at all! It is needed a huge amount of study, of deep thinking and wisdom. His works as also the works of Michelangelo stayed for hundreds of years after them as classic (a model of perfection), as also the works of Pheidias and Praxiteles.
Anyway if you still don't see the similarity and you want to compare painting with painting and sculpure with sculpture i suggest you to search for ancient greek painting. Unfortunately really few has survived. They were also realistic. But they did not use the mathematical rules of perspective as the artists of the renaissance. My examples are from all the hellenic world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Symposiumnorthwa...
http://jjwilliamson1994.blogspot.gr/
http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/let/girl.ht...
Now about the connection of the two frescoes? Which two frescoes exactly? Becoz there are many in each of this places.
Actually now that i think about it I think I gave you in my text the connections that you ask for.
The frescoes on the Sistine Chapel is nicely worth a mind-blowing purchase of money and if the Vatican destroyed this positive artwork of artwork because of their discriminaition coverage adversarial to gays. they might have a mind-blowing purchase of explaining to do. they ought to describe each and every of the money the money they have destroyed and the artwork it is really ordinary as truly the emblem for the Roman Catholic Church in Rome, Italy.
a method to promote fear and make an artist a slave.