{"title":"“His fruit was sweet to my taste”: The Song of Solomon and Michelangelo’s Temptation","authors":"J. Manca","doi":"10.1086/707742","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Michelangelo Buonarroti’s Temptation in the Sistine Chapel is marked by iconographic freedom and innovation, as the artist departs more than once from biblical text and pictorial tradition (fig. 1). Genesis 3:6 describes how the wily serpent tempted Eve with forbidden fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and she, in turn, tempted the first man: “And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.” Michelangelo, perhaps to emphasize Adam’s free will, independence of mind, and inexcusable","PeriodicalId":43235,"journal":{"name":"SOURCE-NOTES IN THE HISTORY OF ART","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2020-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SOURCE-NOTES IN THE HISTORY OF ART","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/707742","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ART","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Michelangelo Buonarroti’s Temptation in the Sistine Chapel is marked by iconographic freedom and innovation, as the artist departs more than once from biblical text and pictorial tradition (fig. 1). Genesis 3:6 describes how the wily serpent tempted Eve with forbidden fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and she, in turn, tempted the first man: “And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.” Michelangelo, perhaps to emphasize Adam’s free will, independence of mind, and inexcusable
米开朗基罗·博纳罗蒂(Michelangelo Buonarroti)的《西斯廷教堂的诱惑》(Temptation in the Sistine Chapel)以图像的自由和创新为标志,因为艺术家不止一次地偏离了圣经文本和绘画传统(图1)。创世纪3:6描述了狡猾的蛇如何用分别善恶树上的禁果诱惑夏娃,而她反过来诱惑了第一个男人:女人见那树的果子好作食物,也悦人的眼目,且是可喜爱的,能使人有智慧,就摘下果子来吃了,又给他丈夫。他确实吃了。”米开朗基罗,也许是为了强调亚当的自由意志、思想独立和不可原谅