| Term Paper Title | Popes And Their Art |
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| # of Pages (250 words per page double spaced) | 3.84 |
Popes and Their Art
The Popes made a store house of the Vatican which is in Rome by the collecting of precious
metals, documents, and art work which is now called, “ The Vatican Collections”. Pope John
Paul 2nd said this of the collections. They will speak of the human condition as well as the
endevorance of the human spirit.
The Vatican contains many Art pieces of the Roman err such as statues of men and women as
well as horses and many other pieces of art work.. Nicolas the 5th was the first true renaissance
Pope and had two great passions, one of books, the other of building. The painters of the
renaissance could expect a lot of help from this Pope.
At one time he commissioned a painter who’s name was called “Frangelico” The son of a
country Doctor, short and not in good health, said to have been caused by to much study.
Frangelico was commissioned by Nicolas the 5th to decorate his private chapel. Great artiste of
the time could also expect help from a man called “Pope Sixtus the 4th” who was know as a born
ruler. It was he who sponsored the “Sistine Chapel” where Popes have been elected every
sense. It was built to perfect proportion and decorated with work of the finest painters that “Pope
Sixtus the 4th”could command. The painters brought to life the story of “Christ”and the early
Church.
Pope Sixtus the 4th was a man who believed in taking care of his own, and who could blame
him for that? He had six nephews and he made three of them Cardinals. One of which payed off,
for he became “ Julius the 2nd” one of the greatest patreant of saints of all the Popes. The Popes
of that time had a weakness for things of great beauty, and enjoyed it by beautifying the Church
with Art. It began on a classical scale of sculpture, Jupiter and Zoose, father of the gods. This
brought back skills long forgotten that made statues seem as though they had once been alive,
and frozen in second of time.
Like the Amazons, a race of woman warriors from the Black Sea. Aireon, deserted on the
island of Nacsaus but to become,“The Bride of Bacus”, the god of wine. Old Father Athena,
who sprang fully armed from the head of Zoose,”The Goddess of War”, science and the Fine
Arts. Pope Julius the 2nd himself was a renaissance man , and began one of what was to become
the world greatest Art Collections. Some of which contained a statues of Apollo, The Sun God,
The Apollo Belvedere, A Great God of Light. Julus the 2nd is also the one who
commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. What Michelangelo did
was to show the relationship between man and God in the form of art. Between 1508 and 1602 he
painted over 300 figures in 9 scenes from the Old Testament , and always he worked alone
tracing the spiritual history of man...Read entire document
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