File:Michelangelo Sistine Chapel - Eleazar and Mattan - Detail Mattan with wife.JPG

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Summary

Artist



Alternative names	Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Description	Italian painter, sculptor, architect and poet Polymath
Date of birth/death	6 March 1475	18 February 1564
Location of birth/death	Caprese	Rome
Work period	Renaissance
Work location	Florence, Bologna, Rome, Tuscany
Authority control	WorldCat

Title

English: Mattan with his wife, part of "Eleazar (or Elazar) and Mathan" (inscribed "ELEAZAR · MATHAN"). Left part, Detail, restored)

Deutsch: Mattan mit Ehefrau und Jakob. Linker Teil des Freskos in der Lünette "Eleasar und Mattan" (beschriftet mit "ELEAZAR · MATHAN") — restauriert.

Date

c. 1508-1512

Medium

fresco

Dimensions

—

Current location

Musei Vaticani — Sistine Chapel above the entrance

Vatican

Notes

Michelangelo probably begun his paintings of lunettes in the Sistine Chapel with this one, 50 years after painting, the bottom part of the painting has been darkened . Note the male hat the women is wearing, Armenian Jews used to wear it in Venice around the 15th century.

Source/Photographer

Photograph of the book: Pierluigi de Vecchi and Gianluigi Colalucci, Die Sixtinische Kapelle, Munich, Bassermann publishers, 2007, p. 25. ISBN 9783809420804
Taken with a Fujifilm FinePix S5700 S700 digital camera.

Licensing

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Photograph

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Sistine Chapel ceiling

Metadata

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Camera manufacturer	FUJIFILM
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F-number	f/3.5
ISO speed rating	800
Date and time of data generation	14:11, 27 October 2008
Lens focal length	8.7 mm
Horizontal resolution	72 dpi
Vertical resolution	72 dpi
Software used	Digital Camera FinePix S5700 S700 Ver1.02
File change date and time	14:11, 27 October 2008
Y and C positioning	Co-sited
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White balance	Auto white balance
Scene capture type	Standard
Sharpness	3
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Date and time of digitizing	14:11, 27 October 2008
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Shutter speed	2.6
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Exposure bias	0
Maximum land aperture	3.6 APEX (f/3.48)
Metering mode	Pattern
Light source	Unknown
Flash	Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression
Colour space	sRGB
Focal plane X resolution	5,376
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Focal plane resolution unit	3
Sensing method	One-chip colour area sensor

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