Separation of Land and Water

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Separation of Land and Water is a fresco panel on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling illustrating the biblical moment in Genesis when God divides the waters to reveal dry land.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Sistine Chapel ceiling panel
fresco
religious painting
access publicly viewable
artForm mural painting
artisticSchool Florentine school
basedOn Genesis creation narrative
commissionedBy Pope Julius II
completionDate 1512
conservationStatus extant
country Vatican City
creator Michelangelo
creatorBirthName Michelangelo
surface form: Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
creatorNationality Italian
depicts Book of Genesis
God dividing the waters
biblical scene
separation of land and water
depictsElement land
sky
water
depictsTime third day of Creation
genre Christian art
biblical painting
hasArtisticTechnique buon fresco
hasCulturalContext Renaissance Italy
surface form: Italian Renaissance
hasMainSubject the Father
surface form: God the Father

creation of the world
heritageDesignation UNESCO World Heritage Site
surface form: UNESCO World Heritage Site (as part of Vatican City)
iconographicTheme Creation
Bible
surface form: Old Testament
inception 1508
languageOfWork visual art
locatedInBuilding Apostolic Palace
location Sistine Chapel
Vatican City
materialUsed pigments
wet plaster
medium fresco
movement High Renaissance
notableWorkOf Michelangelo
partOf Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes
surface form: Sistine Chapel ceiling
partOfSeries Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes
surface form: Sistine Chapel Genesis cycle
positionInCycle one of the central Genesis scenes
religion Christianity
support ceiling
usesPerspective illusionistic architecture

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Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes depicts Separation of Land and Water