New light shed on Sistine art
NZPA-Reuter Vatican City Painstaking restoration of Michelangelo’s frescos in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican has uncovered new details of his artistic techniques and revealed that he corrected at least five mistakes, experts say.
The Renaissance master had made the mistakes in Creation scenes on the chapel’s huge rectangular roof panels.
Fabbrizio Mancinelli, director of the cleaning project, which is financed by a Japanese television network, said Michelangelo had used two techniques for correcting mistakes he had made on the figures of Joel, Zachariah, Noah, and two male nudes.
Contrary to tradition
that the chapel was all his own work, Michelangelo almost certainly Imported painters from Florence to help prepare the plaster and stucco. The restoration work, now roughly half-way through a SUS 3 million ($5.7 million) project over 12 years, has shed light on Michelangelo’s technique of using cartoons to trace outlines of the fresco on the ceiling before painting.
The rectangular frescos, restored to their full original lustre, appeared to discredit a traditional view that Michelangelo was insensitive to colour. The Vatican Museum’s director, Carlo Pietrangeli, said that one-sixth of the ceiling had now been completed,
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