Research on the Sistine Chapel Ceiling Painting of Michelangelo
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63041015
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | Field Research |
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
TANAKA Hidemichi Faculty of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University, 文学部, 助教授 (80000397)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YOSHINO Akira Faculty of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University, 文学部, 助手 (10210741)
ASOU Hideho Tokyo University of fine Arts, 美術学部, 教授 (30015276)
NAGAO Shigetake Musasino University of fine art, 造形学部, 教授 (30011167)
NAKAE Akira University of Osaka Prefecture, 総合科学部, 助教授 (20079007)
WAKAKUWA Midori Chiba University, 教養部, 教授 (30015234)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1988 – 1990
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1990)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥33,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥33,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1990: ¥13,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1989: ¥13,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1988: ¥7,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,000,000)
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| Keywords | Refreshed colors / Fourfold Elements / "Philosophy" by Raphael / Punteggiato / Incisione / The three periods of the execution |
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| Research Abstract |
The recent restoration of the Sistine Chapel ceiling paintings by Michelangelo allows us to discover a new aspect of frescoes from both esthetic and a technical point of view. The close observation of the surface of his fresco paintings, permitted by Vatican authorities to scholers allowed on the high scaffoldings, permit us to open a new discussion about iconographocal and technical problems. In particular the colors are remarkably changed after the restoration. The refreshed colors solicite us now to reconsider the meanings, which Michelangelo originally intended to express. For example, the restoration, for the first time clearly that the following four colors of cloth represent those of Fourfold Elements, these colors are identical to those used by Raphael in the Four Elements colors in the allegorical figures of Philosophy in the Stanza della Segnatura. After examination of all of the figures of these ceiling paintings, one concludes that they mainly represent the personification
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of four generations, of four temperaments, or of four times as the basic structures following the biblical story.
Using the cartoon, there are two techniques for the preparation of fresco painting ; "spolvero" with dots, and "incisione" with lines. In the case of the Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco, Michelangelo also used direct touch in the Lunetto. But the mew observations on this occasion revealed that the techniqueused by him is different from ordinary fresoes. His technique was not "spolvero" but "punteggiato" . From this point of view in the central scenes, between the "Creation of Adam" and the "Separation of sky and Water", it is possible to examine the same changes in technique.
The former scenes shows the "punteggiato" for God and "incisione" for Adam, but in the latter scene we can only "incisione", as in the two other scenes. We can also recognize the difference of style between the three Adam and Eve scenes and the creations of God. Consequently we can distinguish the different styles between the scenes. Less
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