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- 'Judith and Holofernes' by Michelangelo JBU31.JPG (en)
- Creación de Adán.jpg (en)
- David and Goliath .png (en)
- Deluge, Michelangelo.png (en)
- Expulsion del paraíso.jpg (en)
- Michelangelo painting God.JPG (en)
- Michelangelo, Creation of Eve 00.jpg (en)
- Michelangelo, Drunkenness of Noah 00.jpg (en)
- Michelangelo, Sacrifice of Noah 00.jpg (en)
- The Brazen Serpent .png (en)
- The Punishment of Haman.png (en)
- Vaticano 2011 .JPG (en)
- Michelangelo, Separation of the Earth from the Waters 00.jpg (en)
- The Creation of the Sun and the Moon, Michelangelo .jpg (en)
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- Without having seen the Sistine Chapel one can form no appreciable idea of what one man is capable of achieving. (en)
- It seems that Michelangelo, in his own way, allowed himself to be guided by the evocative words of the Book of Genesis which, as regards the creation of the human being, male and female, reveals: "The man and his wife were both naked, yet they felt no shame". The Sistine Chapel is precisely – if one may say so – the sanctuary of the theology of the human body. In witnessing to the beauty of man created by God as male and female, it also expresses in a certain way, the hope of a world transfigured, the world inaugurated by the Risen Christ. (en)
- In a world where all experience was based in the glorious lost past of Antiquity, he made a new beginning. Michelangelo, more even than Raphael or Leonardo, embodies a standard of artistic genius which reveals a radically changed image of human beings and their potential ... (en)
- This work has been and truly is the beacon of our art, and it has brought such benefit and enlightenment to the art of painting that it was sufficient to illuminate a world which for so many hundreds of years had remained in the state of darkness. And, to tell the truth, anyone who is a painter no longer needs to concern himself about seeing innovations and inventions, new ways of painting poses, clothing on figures, and various awe-inspiring details, for Michelangelo gave to this work all the perfection that can be given to such details. (en)
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