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? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________