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Michelangelo, like Leonardo, was a man of many talents; sculptor, architect, painter and poet, he made the apotheosis of muscular movement, which to him was the physical manifestation of passion. He moulded his draughtsmanship, bent it, twisted it, and stretched it to the extreme limits of possibility. There are not any landscapes in Michelangelo's painting. All the emotions, all the passions, all the thoughts of humanity were personified in his eyes in the naked bodies of men and women. He rarely conceived his human forms in attitudes of immobility or repose. Michelangelo became a painter so that he could express in a more malleable material what his titanesque soul felt, what his sculptor's imagination saw, but what sculpture refused him. Thus this admirable sculptor became the creator, at the Vatican, of the most lyrical and epic decoration ever seen: the Sistine Chapel. The profusion of his invention is spread over this vast area of over 900 square metres. There are 343 principal figures of prodigious variety of expression, many of colossal size, and in addition a great number of subsidiary ones introduced for decorative effect. The creator of this vast scheme was only thirty-four when he began his work. Michelangelo compels us to enlarge our conception of what is beautiful. To the Greeks it was physical perfection; but Michelangelo cared little for physical beauty, except in a few instances, such as his painting of Adam on the Sistine ceiling, and his sculptures of the Pietà. Though a master of anatomy and of the laws of composition, he dared to disregard both if it were necessary to express his concept: to exaggerate the muscles of his figures, and even put them in positions the human body could not naturally assume. In his later painting, The Last Judgment on the end wall of the Sistine, he poured out his soul like a torrent. Michelangelo was the first to make the human form express a variety of emotions. In his hands emotion became an instrument upon which he played, extracting themes and harmonies of infinite variety. His figures carry our imagination far beyond the personal meaning of the names attached to them.
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Table of contents
1MICHELANGELO MICHELANGELO
2Author: Eugene Müntz Translator: Arthur Borges
3INTRODUCTION
4T he Brancacci Chapel and Uffizi Gallery in Florence amply
5Veronique Laflèche
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6THE SCULPTOR
7Late Renaissance Sculpture
8The Oeuvre
9As Klaczko notes:
10to his home
11main features of Michelangelo’s genius.
12THE PAINTER AND THE DRAFTSMAN
13Late Renaissance Painting And Drawing
14Interior view of the Sistine Chapel, Vatican, 1508-1541. (opposite)
15Vault of the Sistine Chapel after restoration. (pp. 94-95) Vatican.
16The Oeuvre
17creation? French historian Jules Michelet notes:
18the superhuman
19from
20that day
21THE ARCHITECT
22Late Renaissance Architecture
23Reading room of the Laurentine Library, Florence, 1530.
24Filippo Brunelleschi, Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence, 1421-1440. (pp. 170-171)
25Aerial view of the Capitol, Rome.
26intimate
27Façade of the Palazzo Farnese, Rome, 1548.
28Façade of the Conservative Palace, Capitol, Rome, c. 1560-1570.
29The Oeuvre
30Lateral view of the façade of the Palazzo Farnese, Rome, 1548.
31Palazzo Farnese, main corridor of the piano nobile, Rome, 1517. (opposite)
32Detail of the dome of St Peter’s Basilica, Vatican, Rome, 1546-1564.
33View of the dome of St Peter’s Basilica, Vatican, Rome, 1546-1564.
34rhythm and harmony.
35CONCLUSION
36BIOGRAPHY
371483 Birth of rival, Raphael Sanzio, in Urbino.
381488 Start of a three-year apprenticeship under Domenico Ghirlandaio.
391499 Death of Cardinal Bilhères shortly after completion of the Rome Pietà.
401501 Return to Florence and commission for Davidin marble.
41commission for the Bruges Madonna; completion of Tondo Taddei and Tondo Pitti.
42Return to Florence.
431523 Election of Clement VII (Giulio de’Medici)
441527 Sack of Rome; flight of the Medici.
451531 Noli me Tangereportfolio.
461536 Start of Last Judgmentfor the Sistine Chapel.
471541 Inauguration of the Last Judgment.
48Worksite start-up for the Pauline Chapel.
49of St Peter’s.
50The Cumaean Sibyl, 1508-1512
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