A scholar from Virgina found it on a sheet reused by the master
The first sketch in which Michelangelo imagined the Sistine Chapel
Un confronto fra la Cappella Sistina e il Disegno ritrovato
E. Bramati
06/03/2014
Rome - On the occasion of the 450th anniversary of Michelangelo Buonarroti, important news for the experts of the master come from the United States.
Adriano Marinazzo, Italian scholar at Virginia's Muscarelle Museum of Art at The College of William & Mary, discovered the fist sketch for the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel made by the artist.
Martinazzo said he noticed it two years ago, during other studies at the Archive of Casa Buonarroti in Florence, along the bottom of a parchment bearing a satiric poem about the town of Pistoia.
For years art historians have puzzled over the meaning of this obscure geometrical drawing with triangles and arches, which today appears by all means to be the first preparatory sketch of the ceiling.
The scholar believes the drawing was created no earlier than the spring 1508, soon after the artist took on the commission from Pope Julius II. It should come as no surprise that other works appear next to it, as it is well known that Michelangelo used to reuse his sheets.
After publishing these results in November 2013, currently Marinazzo is working on an artistic multimedia project on the painted architecture of the Sistine ceiling.
As far as Michelangelo is concerned, but this time Merisi from Caravaggio, in this months the Muscarelle Museum is hosting his "Fortune Teller" from the Pinacoteca Capitolina in Rome, and above all a peculiar couple of "St. Francis in Meditation", coming from the Church of San Pietro in Carpineto Romano and that of Santa Maria Immacolata in Rome, respectively.
Adriano Marinazzo, Italian scholar at Virginia's Muscarelle Museum of Art at The College of William & Mary, discovered the fist sketch for the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel made by the artist.
Martinazzo said he noticed it two years ago, during other studies at the Archive of Casa Buonarroti in Florence, along the bottom of a parchment bearing a satiric poem about the town of Pistoia.
For years art historians have puzzled over the meaning of this obscure geometrical drawing with triangles and arches, which today appears by all means to be the first preparatory sketch of the ceiling.
The scholar believes the drawing was created no earlier than the spring 1508, soon after the artist took on the commission from Pope Julius II. It should come as no surprise that other works appear next to it, as it is well known that Michelangelo used to reuse his sheets.
After publishing these results in November 2013, currently Marinazzo is working on an artistic multimedia project on the painted architecture of the Sistine ceiling.
As far as Michelangelo is concerned, but this time Merisi from Caravaggio, in this months the Muscarelle Museum is hosting his "Fortune Teller" from the Pinacoteca Capitolina in Rome, and above all a peculiar couple of "St. Francis in Meditation", coming from the Church of San Pietro in Carpineto Romano and that of Santa Maria Immacolata in Rome, respectively.
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