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Pathetic fifth rate attempt to bastardize Michelangelo's masterpiece The Pieta into propagandizing the 'Tulsa massacre'
huffpost ^ | 06/21/2021 | Ryan J. Reilly

Posted on 06/26/2021 7:09:27 PM PDT by MarvinStinson

Pathetic fifth rate attempt to bastardize Michelangelo's masterpiece The Pieta into
propagandizing the 'Tulsa massacre'

Michelangelo's masterpiece The Pieta

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To: OSHA
The moment was slightly ruined by a bunch of Japanese that were taking pictures while being chased by Italians screaming “No Photo! No Photo!”

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.

21 posted on 06/26/2021 8:07:46 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: Bethaneidh

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.


22 posted on 06/26/2021 8:07:52 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: x

In the Pieta Mary is seated, while in the coomic book examples the holders of the body are standing.


23 posted on 06/26/2021 8:10:10 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: OSHA
I got to travel for work to Italy and was blessed to stand at the feet of Michelangelo’s David. There are no words to describe it. Nothing compares.

My personal favorite Michelangelo is his Moses located in the San Pietro in Vincoli church. It is an absolutely breathtaking sculpture.


24 posted on 06/26/2021 8:12:42 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: jonrick46

I had such a thing for Jessica Lange back in the 1980s. Beautiful Minnesota farm girl.....


25 posted on 06/26/2021 8:13:42 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: MarvinStinson

i saw it with mine own eyes at the 1964 worlds fair...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-EN-khTRRg


26 posted on 06/26/2021 8:14:18 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: Rummyfan

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.


27 posted on 06/26/2021 8:22:44 PM PDT by xp38
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To: MarvinStinson
There is a whole web page and a pinterest page on Pietá comic book covers. It may be the biggest visual cliché in the world of comics.

It's hard to believe that anyone would dare write about this without doing simple basic research.

28 posted on 06/26/2021 8:23:15 PM PDT by x
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To: MarvinStinson
That's been done to death, too.


29 posted on 06/26/2021 8:26:20 PM PDT by x
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To: microgood

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.


30 posted on 06/26/2021 8:26:38 PM PDT by OSHA
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To: MarvinStinson

Nothing can compare to the sorrow of Our Lady holding her truthfully innocent dead Son in her arms.


31 posted on 06/26/2021 8:31:54 PM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: microgood
I read that I.F. Stone book.

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.

32 posted on 06/26/2021 8:36:01 PM PDT by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents.)
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To: Chode

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.


33 posted on 06/26/2021 8:38:44 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Radix
"I am still learning."

Michelangelo--at the age of 87

34 posted on 06/26/2021 8:48:12 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: FamiliarFace
"Genius is eternal patience."

Michelangelo

35 posted on 06/26/2021 8:52:54 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Rummyfan
"I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free."

Michelangelo

36 posted on 06/26/2021 8:55:02 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson
"Beauty is the purgation of superfluities."

Michelangelo

37 posted on 06/26/2021 8:56:57 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Rummyfan

I had a crush on Jessica Lange too.


38 posted on 06/26/2021 8:58:18 PM PDT by jonrick46 ( Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: OSHA

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.


39 posted on 06/26/2021 11:25:24 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…..)
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To: Williams

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.


40 posted on 06/26/2021 11:35:24 PM PDT by NCC-1701 ((You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.))
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