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Michelangelo |
Calendar for this Unit
General Sites
Sistine Chapel
Pieta
Architecture
Poetry
Neoplatonism
Golden Section
Lectures Background Resources for the Michelangelo Humanities Unit
Michelangelo.com
Nice historical Intro. to
Michelangelo's works
with images of most.
Michelangelo's
Sculpture
Images of most of Michelangelo's major sculpture. The site is in
Italian, but
easy to figure out.
Web
Gallery of Art:
Michelangelo
The Web Gallery’s Michelangelo page.
Web
Museum
Michelangelo
With lots of info. on the Renaissance as well.
Digital Projects:
Digital
Michelangelo
(Stanford)
Contains 3D Model of the David with RealPlayer video
Digital
Florentine Pieta (IBM)
Short Biography
(hlla.com)
Excerpt from William E. Wallace’s book.
Olga’s Gallery Michelangelo Biography
Short biography with links to images. Annoying ad
banner.
Michelangelo Biography.com
Drawings
by
Michelangelo (Trofatter)
Links to Images of the most famous drawings (Ads)
Seminar Slides from VSRC Slide Kiosk
On-Campus Access Only
The
Sistine Chapel
Extensive images of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling from Christus
Rex
Visit
to the
Sistine Chapel in Vatican
Extensive Images and Background info.
Has a Clickable Map of the ceiling that takes you to images of each of
the
panels or details
At
the Sistine Chapel (Thinkquest
site)
Simulated tours by
Renaissance figures
Exploring
the
Sistine Chapel Ceiling
The
Vatican Sistine Restoration Site
Not much there, but has
slides of the frescoes along
the walls of the Lives of Moses and Christ
The
Pieta
Extensive Images of the Pieta with lots of details and different
perspectives,
from Christus Rex.
The Pieta
Numerous Images of the Pieta, as well as other works of Michelangelo
Slides of The Pieta
from The VSRC Slide Kiosk
On-Campus Access Only
The
Pieta Project
Results of Research team making computer model of Florentine Pieta
(Deposition)
Michelangelo’s
Architecture (Trofatter)
Links to images of all of the major architecture (Ads)
Michelangelo
Architecture
Images of Palazzo dei Conservatori,
Campidoglio
St Peter's Cathedral.
Images and resources from Great Buildings Online
Three
Poems
Excerpt of new tranlations
by John Nims. Includes Sistine Chapel poem.
Michelangelo’s
Love
Sonnets
New Translations by Michael Sullivan
5
Poems (Monadnock Review)
Translated by Leonard Cottrell
Poetry-Archive.com:
Nine Poems by Michelangelo
Classic translations (Ads)
4 Sonnets (Wayne State)
Translated by Richard Hooker
The
Influence of Neoplatonism
on Michelangelo
Dr. Deborah Vess, Associate
Professor of History ,
Georgia
Renaissance
Neoplatonism
Richard Hooker, Wayne
State
University
Neoplatonism: Plotinus
Italian Renaissance
from same Wayne
State
Focus
on Florence
David Banach: “Michelangelo and the Value of Art”
2003 version
Recording (mp3)
The Golden Section
The
Golden Mean
An extensive site on the Golden Section in architecture and art.
Lots of diagrams and links.
A good place
to start.
The
Golden Section in Art and Architecture
Jill Britton’s excellent slide show introduction to the
Golden Mean
Fibonacci
Numbers in Nature
Another excellent slide
presentation from Jill Bretton’s
site.
Fibonacci
Numbers and The Golden
Section
One of the best and most extensive sites I’ve found. Ron
Knott's
The Golden
Proportion
Examples of the proportion in nature, art, and architecture.
Sacred
Geometry Home Page
A more general account of the relationship of geometric form to beauty.
The
page is very well done and gives a good idea of the Neoplatonic
view of form and beauty.
Mid_Atlantic Geomancy Sacred
Geometry Page
A very nice simple
account of some of the most
persistent mathematical forms in Art and Nature. Nice Images!!
The Divine
Proportion
Another nice short account of the Golden Section and where it shows up
in Art.
Some nice images.
