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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Lunette and Popes

🖼 Lunette and Popes, 1475-83, 1508-12
Fresco
Vatican, Italy

Monumental figures of popes emerge from shadowed arches, rendered with sculptural precision and dramatic foreshortening. Michelangelo's lunettes establish papal lineage as foundational to Christian authority, integrating portraiture into the Sistine Chapel's theological narrative.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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