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File:Michelangelo Sistine Chapel - Eleazar and Mattan - Detail Mattan with wife.JPG

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Artist
Title
English: Mattan with his wife, part of "Eleazar (or Elazar) and Mathan" (inscribed "ELEAZAR · MATHAN"). Left part, Detail, restored)
Deutsch: Mattan mit Ehefrau und Jakob. Linker Teil des Freskos in der Lünette "Eleasar und Mattan" (beschriftet mit "ELEAZAR · MATHAN") — restauriert.
Date c. 1508-1512
Medium fresco
Dimensions —
Musei Vaticani — Sistine Chapel above the entrance
Vatican
Notes Michelangelo probably begun his paintings of lunettes in the Sistine Chapel with this one, 50 years after painting, the bottom part of the painting has been darkened . Note the male hat the women is wearing, Armenian Jews used to wear it in Venice around the 15th century.
Source/Photographer

Photograph of the book: Pierluigi de Vecchi and Gianluigi Colalucci, Die Sixtinische Kapelle, Munich, Bassermann publishers, 2007, p. 25. ISBN 9783809420804
Taken with a Fujifilm FinePix S5700 S700 digital camera.

See also

  • Complete lunette.

  • Eleazar.

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Camera manufacturer FUJIFILM
Camera model FinePix S5700 S700
Exposure time 1/6 sec (0.16666666666667)
F-number f/3.5
ISO speed rating 800
Date and time of data generation 14:11, 27 October 2008
Lens focal length 8.7 mm
Horizontal resolution 72 dpi
Vertical resolution 72 dpi
Software used Digital Camera FinePix S5700 S700 Ver1.02
File change date and time 14:11, 27 October 2008
Y and C positioning Co-sited
Custom image processing Normal process
Exposure mode Auto exposure
White balance Auto white balance
Scene capture type Standard
Sharpness 3
Subject distance range Unknown
Exposure Program Normal program
Exif version 2.2
Date and time of digitizing 14:11, 27 October 2008
Image compression mode 4
Shutter speed 2.6
APEX aperture 3.6
Exposure bias 0
Maximum land aperture 3.6 APEX (f/3.48)
Metering mode Pattern
Light source Unknown
Flash Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression
Colour space sRGB
Focal plane X resolution 5,376
Focal plane Y resolution 5,376
Focal plane resolution unit 3
Sensing method One-chip colour area sensor

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