Shop art print and framed art Conversion of St. Paul by Michelangelo Buonarroti

The Conversion of Saint Paul is a biblical fresco in the Vatican's Pauline Chapel, painted by Michelangelo around 1542-1545 at the request of Pope Paul III. The work depicts the moment when Saul is converted to Christianity on the road to Damascus. Pope Paul III commissioned work on the chapel of his namesake. The chapel was built by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger between 1537 and 1538 under the patronage of Pope Paul III Farnese to serve as a place for storing the consecrated host and as a place where the cardinals met to elect a new pope. Michelangelo had just completed the Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel. Pope Paul III offered him a new assignment, this time more closely linked to his name. Between 1537 and 1540, he had a palatine chapel, the Parva, built in the Vatican palace, and wanted the famous artist to decorate it with frescoes linked to the chapel's owner and the diocese of Rome, Saint Peter (apostle) and Saint Paul of Tarsus. Work on the Pauline Chapel began around October or November 1542; the artist himself applied himself more slowly than on the large frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, due to his old age and infirmities. In 1544, he stopped work because of a serious illness. The first of the two frescoes commissioned, The Conversion of Saul, had to be completed on 12 July 1545. On 10 August 1545, the walls began to be prepared for another fresco, The Martyrdom of Saint Peter. That same year, a fire broke out in the chapel, further delaying the work. The [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the renaissance period. It belongs to the italian renaissance style.

 

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