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To: r9etb
Michelangelo broke from the conventional imagining of Christ. He portrayed Christ as robust, muscular and without a beard.

Compare his Christ in the "Final Judgment" or in the "Pieta"

to the portrayal by Michelangelo's contemporaries Verrochio and Da Vinci.

Later artists, like Caravaggio, would follow Michelangelo's example and depict Christ as a large man.

I would be very surprised to find that this is a Michelangelo.

26 posted on 10/11/2010 11:27:13 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Agree.

Just keep Dan Brown away from it.


28 posted on 10/11/2010 12:10:08 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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