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Separation of Light from Darkness

Michelangelo

1512

fresco

From the collection of Vatican Museums

High Renaissance Renaissance Religious

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Separation of Light from Darkness is a 1512 fresco by Michelangelo, a High Renaissance work, held at Vatican Museums.

Who painted this?: Michelangelo
When & what style?: 1512 · High Renaissance
Where can I see it?: Vatican Museums

About this work

Separation of Light from Darkness is a fresco by Michelangelo, painted around 1512 on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. It sits in the Vatican Museums and takes its name from the Genesis story of God creating light. The panel is the first of nine central scenes that run along the ceiling’s middle. It is one of five smaller panels that alternate with four larger ones, and Michelangelo finished it in the summer of 1512, the final year of the ceiling project. Check out the museum: Vatican Museums.

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Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.

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