Michelangelo's bronze panther-riders revealed after 'Renaissance whodunnit'

www.theguardian.com ^ | 02/01/2015 | Mark Brown

[Red Badger]

Victoria Avery of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, said the project to attribute the bronzes, involving a team of experts from different fields, had been like a Renaissance whodunnit. Photograph: Chris Radburn/PA

[NYer]

Ping!

[ClearCase_guy]

Nice panthers. I hope that’s not a cougar in the middle.

[Da Coyote]

Wonderful statues, but the reference to “...handsome, virile men....”..

Hmmmm, do dat writer go to Bawny’s house when they’re in Taxachusetts?

[Red Badger]

Michelangelo was very interested in male bodies.................

[Red Badger]

The male bodies may be perfect, but the panthers look malnourished...............

[ClearCase_guy]

Yes. One of the reasosns they think these were actually made by Michelangelo is because the maker had a really, really good knowledge of men’s anatomies. *cough* * cough*

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

So, why did so many of Cellini’s works survive but Michelangelo’s get melted down?

[Kenny Bunk]

As an ASTM-Certified Welder and Renaissance Art Expert, allow me to unequivocally state that if Mike D'Angelo sculpted these two homo-tschoskes, he also painted my original Elvis on black velvet. The crown jewel of my collection, also on display in mobile homes (single-wides) across the nation, is his stirring black velvet portrait of JFK, MLK, RFK and PJXXIII looking back over their shoulders as they march hand-in-hand on a pink cloud toward a Tampa Bay sunset.

As a sensitive dude, I really do feel the curator's pain. However, All Yard Sale Item Transactions are final.

[ThirdMate]

Reminiscent of Katy Perry riding a gold tiger at last night’s halftime show.

[DanielRedfoot]

Or Putin’s nature porn

[buwaya]

Because, going by these examples, Cellini was much better at making bronzes.
These two are not impressive. They seem clumsy and unnatural.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Where’s the Panther-Whizz take on this?

[MeshugeMikey]

neil young finds them very attractive....

[SkyDancer]

The thing about “David” - he’s a Jewish king, right? So why doesn’t it show him circumcised? Tradition is on the eight day .... secondly he looks more like an Italian kid ....

[Red Badger]

The Grand Inquisition?.................

[Red Badger]

I think it was a lion...............

[Red Badger]

That is correct.
And ‘David’ is ‘Politically Correct’...................for the times...........

[Red Badger]

Also, David was left handed. The statue ‘David’ shows the right hand being slightly larger and more muscular than the left hand, when it should have been the opposite.............