The Prophet Jeremiah
Artist	Michelangelo
Year	circa 1508–1512
Type	Fresco
Dimensions	390 cm × 380 cm (150 in × 150 in)
Location	Sistine Chapel,Vatican Palace,Vatican City

The Prophet Jeremiah is one of the sevenOld Testamentprophets painted by theItalianHigh Renaissance masterMichelangelo (c. 1510–12) on theSistine Chapel ceiling. TheSistine Chapel is inVatican Palace, in theVatican City.

This particularfresco is the first one on the left from the side of theHigh Altar. The person ofJeremiah is imagined as lost in anguished meditation. Although the painting portrays Jeremiah as lamenting over theDestruction of Jerusalem, critics^[who?] have interpreted the figure as a self-portrait byMichelangelo, with the artist lamenting over the weight of his sins. Or perhaps Michelangelo is bemoaning his situation being forced by Julius II to paint when he wished to sculpt. Michelangelo spent 4 years on the Sistine ceiling during which time he escaped Rome and the job a few times when he fled to his hometown, Florence. Note that Raphael added the figure of Michelangelo/Heraclitus to his own fresco of theSchool of Athens and Raphael "copied" Michelangelo's own self-portrait and gave Michelangelo/Heraclitus boots (Michelangelo was known to have worn boots and didn't often remove them) and the bowed head on hand that Michelangelo had given himself.

Influential English criticRoger Fry used the figure to illustrate hisemotional elements of design, or how formal elements such as mass and space produce emotion:

When, for instance, we look at Michelangelo's "Jeremiah," and realise the irresistiblemomentum his movements would have, we experience powerful sentiments of reverence andawe.^[1]

• List of works by Michelangelo

• Fry, Roger. 1920. "Vision and Design." London: Chatto & Windus. "An Essay in Æsthetics." 11–24. Accessed online on 13 March 2012 athttps://www.scribd.com/doc/52044301/Roger-Fry-Vision-and-design

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