Posted on 05/20/2019 7:01:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
THE earliest-known work of art created by Michelangelo when the Italian artist was just 12 years old has been discovered.
The sketch, which depicts a robed man in a chair, was identified by leading Italian Renaissance scholar Sir Timothy Clifford.
Sir Clifford believes the legendary artist, who painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and carved the statue of David in marble, created the work when he was just a young child.
Describing it as “the earliest drawing efforts of a youth who would one day emerge as one of the most remarkable artists that has ever lived,” Sir Clifford thinks it dates from around 1487.
He told The Sunday Telegraph: “It's the earliest-known Michelangelo drawing by a year, maybe two, than anything else we know. So it is particularly fascinating.
“He uses two different varieties of brown ink.
“He has an idiosyncratic way of drawing, with rounded chins and a very hard line under the nose, which also appears in a slightly later drawing.
“No other (Domenico) Ghirlandaio pupil draws like that. It's an extraordinarily interesting object because Michelangelo's very young indeed.”
It is considered to be all the more remarkable because the Italian artist was known to destroy drawings after finishing them.
This includes a huge number that he burned shortly before his death.
Michelangelo’s 16th-century biographer, Vasari, once wrote: “Just before his death, [Michelangelo] burned a large number of his own drawings, sketches and cartoons to prevent anyone from seeing the labours he endured or the ways he tested his genius, for fear that he might seem less than perfect.
“The way Michelangelo's talents and character developed astonished Domenico [his teacher], who saw him doing things quite out of the ordinary for boys of his age and not only surpassing his many other pupils, but also very often rivalling the achievements of the master himself.”
The Seated Man sketch was bought by an anonymous British collected in 1989 at a French auction.
At the time, its artist was unidentified.
I would like to know where it has been all these years, how they found it, who had it, where was it stored, how it survived, and provenance on the ownership, etc. along with the type of paper, ink, and items that dated it.
His "Madonna of the Stairs"---his first known marble is reminiscent of that drawing.
I found one of these in my attic.
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Just curious what evidence other than his art does the lavender mafia have on him?
Thanks Red Badger.
OK...now I want to get out my colored pencils and crayons and produce a timeless work of art!!!
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That'll work! Just have to stick it in a drawer for 500 years, and it'll be priceless. Some da Vinci's rather small body of work (other than the notebooks) consists of study drawings he made.
Sorry but that’s definitely a Picasso........
No, not with the toe fungus he suffered from........
I still have the “monsker” my son drew when he was three. Pretty darn good!! ;o]
The artistic talent in my family bypassed me entirely.
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I think it skips a generation, or in my family, it continues to skip a generation.
Born genius.
Sure!
"That means 'from Angelo.'"
Every figure in history was gay unless we have evidence to the contrary. /s
Really good refrigerator magnets.
Do you mind if I call in an expert? He knows everything there is to know about this stuff. We can get his opinion and go from there.
LOL!
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