The Deluge

Michelangelo, 1508, Sixtinska kapellet

‘The Deluge’ is a work by Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italy, 1475–1564). It is dated 1508. It is part of the collection Sixtinska kapellet. Wikidata links the work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘The Renaissance’.

It is made of fresco and oil paint. The work belongs to the genre religious art. The things depicted include Genesis flood narrative.

The catalogue has 104 more works by Michelangelo Buonarroti.

• The Renaissance