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| Title: | The Prophet Joel |
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| Notes: | What follows is a comment upon the Sistine Chapel figure of the prophet Joel, from the following: Life and Early Works (Michelangelo: Selected Scholarship in English), by William E. Wallace. Routledge, 1995, pg. 16. "Joel is informed by a higher energy of spirit than the Delfica [Delphic Sibyls], expressing a contrast of principle that will persist throughout the ceiling between the male force of the Prophets and a lesser spiritual vigor in the Sibyls. More not only than the Delfica but than his companion Zachariah, Joel makes the spectator know that Michelangelo will henceforth speak about a new dimension of humanity. Joel's controlled energy and scale of form convey that they are the reciprocal of a state of mind: he makes the impression of a being magnified in body and spirit far above the normal status of humanity." |
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| Date: | 1508-1512 |
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| Artist: | Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 |
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| Building: | Sistine Chapel
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| Object/Function: | Fresco |
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| Country: | Vatican City
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| Scripture: | Joel 2:23-32
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| Person as Subject: | Joel (Biblical figure)
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| Lectionary links: | CProp25
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| Attribution: | Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564. The Prophet Joel, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=54225 [retrieved October 4, 2024]. Original source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michelangelo,_profeti,_Joel_01.jpg. |
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| Record Number: | 54225
Last Updated: 2021-11-12 15:22:49
Record Created: 2009-02-11 13:23:24 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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