Packet 6: Bonus 5

Loren Partridge reads this figure’s open palm as “accepting and questioning” a nearby angel, whom Gary Anderson reads as surprising this figure with typology. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this figure who turns to his right in shock towards an angel who gestures up to a scene depicting the Creation of Eve. This man sits in a niche beneath ignudi (“ih-NYOO-dee”), between scenes of the Fall and the Creation of Man.
ANSWER: Ezekiel [or Ezechiel]
[10e] Michelangelo painted Ezekiel as part of this artwork, whose scenes from Genesis include God reaching out to touch the finger of a newly-created Adam.
ANSWER: the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel [or the Sistine Chapel ceiling; prompt on the Sistine Chapel]
[10m] Ezekiel is among the seven prophets and five of these figures who sit in niches around the central scenes. A putto makes a fig gesture behind a muscular one of these figures who turns to her right to pore over a large book.
ANSWER: sibyls [accept the Cumaean Sibyl]
<JF, Visual Fine Arts> | NAFTA-Packet-6

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