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  Artwork: Ancestors of Christ: Jesse - David - Solomon
  Artist: MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
  Date: 1511-12
  Technique: Fresco
  Location: Cappella Sistina, Vatican
  Notes: Lunette. Traditionally it is believed that David is the principal figure on the left, while Solomon is the child with a veiled head behind him. Bathsheba is the woman on the right. The identification of the characters in Michelangelo's frescos of the ancestors of Christ is generally uncertain.
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  Subject: Other Portraits of Solomon
The Genealogy of Jesus
Portraits of Bathsheba
Other Portraits of David


  Hosts: Art Renewal Center  [IMAGE]
Christus Rex  [IMAGE]
Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists  [IMAGE]
Web Gallery of Art  [IMAGE]
  David (?), upper part of figure:
Web Gallery of Art  [IMAGE]
  Woman on the right side:
Web Gallery of Art  [IMAGE]