![]() The most important building since the Acropolis. Your new cathedral'll make a fine setting for the tomb. And, uh, the architect? I like your plan for St. ![]() And it took you how long to carve the David in Florence? - Four years. You know a sculptor that can cut marble faster than I can? - How many sculptures do you plan for this tomb? - Forty. Then I fear he'll achieve no fame in this century. Yes, and what is all Rome doing? Eating, drinking, working, making love? Rome's not interested in petty conquerors. All Rome to take a holiday and come to St. Surely nothing so important as to do your pontiff honor? - Do him honor? - His Holiness's orders were clear. ![]() In the name of the Holy Church, I thank you. The masterpiece of a sculptor who did not want to paint. yet still best known for his frescoes on the ceiling of a chapel in the Vatican. Acclaimed by the world for his titanic figures in marble. not far from this square, the Campidoglio, which he had designed. The agony of creation has finally forced him. to this final achievement with its unfinished stamp. but the most profound sign of suffering in man. Here Michelangelo is no longer searching for beauty. At long intervals for the last 11 years ofhis life and up to the day ofhis death. known as the Rondanini and considered the artist's testament. Peter's, now on exhibition at the New York World's Fair. crying, "And now speak." Here, that glory of the sculptor's art. that Michelangelo struck its knee with a hammer. described by a biographer as a better warrior than a pope. originally intended for the funeral monument of PopeJulius II. No longer the meek shepherd, David is shown at the moment ofhis decision to fight. ![]() In 18 months, Michelangelo had transformed it. earlier rejected by other artists who had palled before it. who had banished the shadows ofbarbarism. The genius of Victory, said to be tribute to Lorenzo, Michelangelo's second father. Roughly hewn like the first vague light of dawn. And the mask, symbols of the dreams and terrors of darkness. The Tomb of Giuliano and its companion works Night and Day. Even the architecture designed by Michelangelo. lest further refinements would compromise the life, the real essence of the work. As here he now and again would stop short. which recurs in other of the master's creations. Significant for that unfinished appearance. a treasure of art only recently discovered. For the Dominicans of Santo Spiritu, The Crucifix. For by now the fame of Michelangelo had spread beyond the walls of Florence. Otherwise known as The Bacchus, a work commissioned by a banker of Rome. in the act of tempting an intoxicated Adam. carved with a force and energy as stirring as a rebellion. At 17, he created the Battle of the Centaurs. the giver oflife and the custodian of death. became soft as wax, translucent as alabaster. Yet, under his hands, marble lost its hardness. No wonder he felt his destiny: Born to sculpt, not paint. Muscular masses, figures standing out from the folios. could acquire harmony of volume and form. that stone that sprang from the heart ofhis land. And here, in this new Athens, the boy Michelangelo saw how the marble. a poet, a patron of the arts: Lorenzo the Magnificent. Dominated in the year 1469 by one man who was a prince. learning to discover its defects to probe its potentialities. "the stone oflight" as the Greeks called it. First the ordinary stone, then the marble. Here at Settignano, he studied the rudiments of sculpture technique. ![]() Michelangelo burst from his heritage like an unexpected flame. There had been soldiers in the Buonarroti family too, but never an artist. Michelangelo was born in 1475 in the Tuscan village of Caprese. The work of an artist who did not want to paint. stronghold of the most celebrated frescoes in the history of painting. And in the Vatican close by, the Sistine Chapel. to commemorate the 400th anniversary of its designer's death. gathered in Rome from all over the world. A focus of admiration for those who this past year. And even today in this time of scientific miracles. ![]()
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