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The View has won Daytime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Talk Show, Outstanding Informative Talk Show, and Outstanding Talk Show Host. The show has received praise from the Associated Press , Entertainment Weekly , the Los Angeles Times , Slate , as well as The New York Times , which deemed it "the most important political TV show in America".
The series features actor Charles Dance as the artist Michelangelo. The script uses language taken directly from Michelangelo’s correspondence. Dance's part in the series was filmed in Islington, London. [2] [3] [4] The series has contributions from contemporary artists such as Antony Gormley, Alison Lapper, and David LaChapelle as well as ...
Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Portrait of a Young Woman (1470–1472), Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan. Facade of Santa Maria Novella (1456) Michelangelo, Doni Tondo (1503–1504). The Florentine Renaissance in art is the new approach to art and culture in Florence during the period from approximately the beginning of the 15th century to the end of the 16th.
The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is one of the most renowned artworks of the High Renaissance. Central to the ceiling decoration are nine scenes from the Book of Genesis of which The Creation of Adam is the best known, the hands of God and Adam being reproduced in countless imitations.
Michelangelo's two frescoes in the Cappella Paolina, The Conversion of Saul and The Crucifixion of St Peter were painted from 1542 to 1549, the height of his fame, but were widely viewed as disappointments and even failures by their contemporary audience. They did not conform to the compositional conventions of the time and the subject-matter ...
The Creation of the Sun, Moon and Plants (sometimes The Creation of the Sun, Moon and Vegetation or The Creation of the Sun and the Moon) is one of the frescoes from Michelangelo's nine Books of Genesis scenes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
[2] Saul's face reflects Michelangelo's own, who at this point was an old man also troubled by his faith. The figure of Saul represents “the human being in need of a greater light”. [ 3 ] Surrounding Saul is a triangular composition of companions that attempt to aid him as he lies recumbent on the ground.
Evidence of Michelangelo's painting style is seen in the Doni Tondo.His work on the image foreshadows his technique in the Sistine Chapel.. The Doni Tondo is believed to be the only existing panel picture Michelangelo painted without the aid of assistants; [7] and, unlike his Manchester Madonna and Entombment (both National Gallery, London), the attribution to him has never been questioned.