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바이블엔명화 2020. 8. 15. 14:47

Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475 – 1564

The Prophet Jeremiah

fresco — 1508-1512

Sistine Chapel, Vatican City

Michelangelo Buonarroti biography

This work is linked to Jeremiah 1:1

 

Art and the Bible - Jeremiah 1 - Old Testament

The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah 1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: 2 To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of hi

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Jeremiah was one of the great prophets of the Old Testament. His life and works are collected in the Book of Jeremiah and in the Lamentations.

 

For this fresco in the Sistine Chapel Michelangelo probably depicted Jeremiah lamenting the fall of Jerusalem. More than a century later, Rembrandt also a lamenting Jeremiah.

 

The photo was taken before the restauration of the Chapel.