Art 109 Renaissance to Modern Westchester Community College

Spring 2015  

Homework 3.2 Michelangelo and Artistic License

Name _________________________________________________________________

Michelangelo’s David (Smarthistory) http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/Michelangelo-David.html

1. What specific moment in the story does Michelangelo depict in this statue, and how can we tell? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. According to the speakers, why did the Florentines fall in love with this statue? What did it symbolize to them? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Michelangelo’s Moses (Smarthistory) http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/michelangelo-moses.html

3. Who commissioned Michelangelo’s Moses, and what was the statue

for? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. What do the speakers mean when they say that Moses is a “figure in transition”? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Art 109 Renaissance to Modern Westchester Community College

Spring 2015  

Michelangelo’s Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (Smarthistory) http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/sistine-chapel-ceiling.html

5. According to this resource, what is the “true significance” of Michelangelo’s scene depicting the Creation of Adam? How does it reflect Michelangelo’s attitude towards the human body? _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Michelangelo’s Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (Smarthistory) http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/sistine-chapel-ceiling.html

6. In their discussion of the Libyan Sybil, how do the speakers say that Michelangelo expressed the divinity of this figure, and how is it different from medieval art? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

7. In their discussion of the Temptation of Adam and Expulsion, what do the speakers observe about the contrast in the way Adam and Eve are represented before and after the Fall? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________