id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_qrtpg5s4mjacncvjhhflhxrulm Valerie Shrimplin Michelangelo, Copernicus and the Sistine chapel 2009 7 .pdf application/pdf 5864 322 61 Michelangelo, Copernicus and the Sistine Chapel, American Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Abstract: It is argued that Copernican astronomy is a key theme in Michelangelo's fresco of the Last Judgment in the iconography of the Last Judgment (depicting the three parts of the universe: heaven earth and hell) was traditionally based on Michelangelo's revolutionary work, Christ is significantly depicted as a beardless Apollonian sun-god, positioned in the Keywords: Copernicus, Michelangelo, Heliocentric, Sistine Chapel, Dante It has long been widely recognized that in Michelangelo's fresco of the Last Judgment (1541) Christ is depicted Sun-symbolism and Cosmology in Michelangelo's Last Judgment, Truman State On the altar wall, Michelangelo's monumental fresco of the Last Judgment (painted much later, Michelangelo and Copernicus at the time of the commission of the Last Judgment. 6 Valerie Shrimplin: Michelangelo, Copernicus and the Sistine Chapel At the time that Michelangelo was painting his great fresco, the heliocentric theory ./cache/work_qrtpg5s4mjacncvjhhflhxrulm.pdf ./txt/work_qrtpg5s4mjacncvjhhflhxrulm.txt