My personal favorite Michelangelo is his Moses located in the San Pietro in Vincoli church. It is an absolutely breathtaking sculpture.
Posted on 06/26/2021 7:09:27 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
I've been lucky enough to visit the Sistine Chapel three of four times. The guides repeatedly tell every 'no photos'. Once you're in though just about everyone is holding up a cell phone or a camera.
Michelangelo also got complaints that the Mary of his Pieta looks younger than her son.
His answer was that pureness of spirit doesn’t age.
In the Pieta Mary is seated, while in the coomic book examples the holders of the body are standing.
My personal favorite Michelangelo is his Moses located in the San Pietro in Vincoli church. It is an absolutely breathtaking sculpture.
I had such a thing for Jessica Lange back in the 1980s. Beautiful Minnesota farm girl.....
My experience in the Sistine was I suppose with a bunch of school groups and the custodians or guards banging their staffs into the floor and yelling Silencio!!! Quiet for a bit and then the voices would slowly crescendo until another staff banging and Silencio. No problems when I saw David. Easily the greatest sculpture/statue ever made.. Sadly since the crazed Hungarian Australian (my own similar heritage btw) took a hammer to the Pieta you can’t get very close anymore.
It's hard to believe that anyone would dare write about this without doing simple basic research.
It ain’t a bad movie starring Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison.
A battle of giants of that time portrayed by giants of our time.
Nothing can compare to the sorrow of Our Lady holding her truthfully innocent dead Son in her arms.
They made a movie of it in 1964. They could not possibly ever have replicated the story in dramatization, but I purchased the DVD anyhow.
Michelangelo was a remarkable person and that is evident by just what he left behind.
Imagine, staring at stone or marble for days watching how it reflects sunlight and tolerates the impact of Light, before even approaching it with chisels and hammer. So freaking cool.
Yes saw it in 64 as well and then in Rome in 2018.
Shame it’s at such a distance behind glass now.
Try the Bernini sculptures at the Borghese gallery for something comparable and more accessible.
Michelangelo--at the age of 87
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I had a crush on Jessica Lange too.
That were works of true masters, the likes of which we never see any more.
What passes for “art” these days is a pathetic joke.
I’ve seen it myself. Some one took a hammer to it some years ago. It was repaired with no sign of the damage done. That’s the reason it is behind glass.
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