Michelangelo Buonarroti

The Brazen Serpent

1511 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican The cruel punishment of the Israelites for having spoken against God and Moses occupies a large part of the pendentive, with bodies intertwined in an indescribable tangle. This presented the artist with an opportunity for virtuosic foreshortening and twisting of the bodies, and also depicting contorted, screaming faces. Artist: MICHELANGELO Buonarroti Title: The Brazen Serpent (detail) Date: 1501-1550 Italian , painting : religious

Oil Painting ID::. 62903