sistine chapel
Michelangelo's paintings on the Sistine Chapel contain a strong presence of God. The ideas and stories of the Bible lie at the surface of the entire ceiling. All these stories are taking from the book of Genesis, which would not be possible without God. The scenes depicted are placed in a time frame of an earlier world. This period is called ante legem, and is the period before the Mosaic Law. The scenes can be analyzed in numerous ways that depend on the analyzers faith and interpretation of the beginning of time. The chapel contains nine stories divided into three trilogies: The Creation of the World, the Creation of Man, and the Story of Noah. All of these stories have a strong Godly presence, as the viewer sees the creation, progression, and, eventual, fall of man. The idea of God evolves from panel to panel by allowing the onlooker to consider God in three different situations forcing his role to change throughout each. The establishment of the vision of diverse, yet related symbols of biblical foundations presents a sense of the supernatural and divine world. The stories embody separate motifs; but, the piece is expressed as a unified whole with God being the only consistent presence in either idea
The last scene of the final trilogy is "The Drunkenness of Noah". This scene arises from Noah's discovery of wine, which foolishly drinks in excess: "he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent"7. The sons of Noah are also displayed, where three children laugh, as the one child covers his father in his foolish state. The children who treated their father as a mockery were punished. The sin of the man is counteracted in all three of these scenes of the final trilogy, as God is seen as all knowing of his eventful world. When dividing the Sistine Chapel into an two equal parts, the role of God is the foundation of the division's placement. The line is seen between the "Creation of Eve" and "The Temptation and Expulsion of Paradise". This is where God changes from an active figure to a sensual spirit. The question of who or what is God is not recognized in the Sistine Chapel. The closest thing to a definition of who God is, is the description of the two roles he plays from the "Separation of Light from Darkness" to "The Drunkenness of Noah". This description is from Michelangelo's point of view for he is the creator. He takes on a Godlike position because the viewer can only see God as Michelangelo sees God if the Sistine Chapel is what is being examined. God can be defined in a number of manners for it is a personal belief and opinionated definition. The "Creation of Eve" and "The Temptation and Expulsion from Paradise" are the other stories of this second trilogy. The "Creation of Eve" seems less mystical than the "Creation of Adam" for it is arising from something already in form. This painting shows Eve stemming from Adam. The small piece of Adam is transformed by God, who has a magical role with this creation because he is changing the form of something. This mystical role shifts to a spiritual role in "The Temptation and Expulsion from Paradise". God, the creator, has altered into God, the numinous, worldly onlooker. This scene shows that Eve "was good for food... she took the food
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