Michael angelo sculptures

Brancusi’s “Bird in Space” sculpture, photo by Louise Dahl-Wolfe, 1939 Latest entries here Looking at ceramic art online is sometimes deceptive because the pieces are generally photographed on a plain background and the dimensionality can't easily be ascertained to get an idea of the the actual size. Even when you know the dimensions it's still a challenge to conceptualize. Depending on the image editing, the texture can also be difficult to judge. Visiting a gallery has a distinct advantage…

Shortly after 23-year-old Michelangelo Buonarroti arrived in Rome in 1497, he was approached by French Cardinal Jean Bilhères de Lagraulas for a special task. Cardinal Bilhères wanted an extraordinary sculpture made for his mausoleum in the Chapel of Santa Petronilla, the chapel for the King of France in St. Peter's Basilica, and he wanted the

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In keeping with Holy Week, I present Michelangelo's "Pieta". This is truly a beautiful and moving piece of art. I was fortunate to have seen it in person when I was a child - about 10 or 11 I think. It was at the Vatican Pavillion at the World's Fair in New York in the 1960s. Even at that young age I could see that this was something out of the ordinary. Created in 1499 out of a single piece of marble, the "Pieta" stands 5ft 5.5 ins by 6 ft 4.8 ins. It was commissioned by the French Cardinal…

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Tomb of Pope Julius II, by Michelangelo Buonarotti, inside the church of San Pietro in Vincoli (Saint Peter in Chains), Rome, Italy. The horns are due to a medieval mistranslation of the book of Exodus. Instead of "emitting rays", many versions of the Bible (including, evidently, Michelangelo's copy) had Moses' head "growing fully-developed horns". See where this picture was taken. [?]

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