Raphael comes to rome in about 15 o eight, and he, i was that significant. Ar he initially joins a team of artists, and probably through the good offices of bromante,. The architect who mentioned earlier, who is a countryman of his and a friend of his. And then rapidly, he actually takes over the project, which is to paint a sequence of rooms which are pope julius second's new apartments. Meanwhile, some of the time, sarah raphael was working just a few hundred yards away. Is there any conflict between raphael and michael angelo? I think it depends whether you ask raphael or m Michael angelo
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing work of Michelangelo (1477-1564) in this great chapel in the Vatican, firstly the ceiling with images from Genesis (of which the image above is a detail) and later The Last Judgement on the altar wall. For the Papacy, Michelangelo's achievement was a bold affirmation of the spiritual and political status of the Vatican, of Rome and of the Catholic Church. For the artist himself, already famous as the sculptor of David in Florence, it was a test of his skill and stamina, and of the potential for art to amaze which he realised in his astonishing mastery of the human form.
With
Catherine Fletcher
Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University
Sarah Vowles
The Smirnov Family Curator of Italian and French Prints and Drawings at the British Museum
And
Matthias Wivel
The Aud Jebsen Curator of Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings at the National Gallery
Producer: Simon Tillotson