Michelangelo: Sculpture

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MICHELANGELO SCULPTURE ALESSANDRO PARRONCHI In the work of Michelangelo the humanist aspirations of the Renaissance received their supreme expression. Michelangelo always regarded himself as primarily a sculptor, and even in the Virgin of the Stairs, created before he was twenty, we already see signs of the brooding majesty of his mature style. In due course he was to revolutionize sculpture, endowing it with an almost overpowering grandeur and imaginative force which had no precedent. No sculptor since the ancient Greeks had given such sublime embodiment to the ideál of physical beauty as Michelangelo in such masterpieces as the Dávid in Florence, or the allegorical figures in the Medici chapel in that city. In the latter we discern the beginnings of the feeling of sombre disillusionment that was henceforth to dominate his work. Finally, in his two last Pietá, he expressed with passionate intensity the deep religious feeling of his last years. Technically, in these late works... Tovább

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MICHELANGELO SCULPTURE ALESSANDRO PARRONCHI In the work of Michelangelo the humanist aspirations of the Renaissance received their supreme expression. Michelangelo always regarded himself as primarily a sculptor, and even in the Virgin of the Stairs, created before he was twenty, we already see signs of the brooding majesty of his mature style. In due course he was to revolutionize sculpture, endowing it with an almost overpowering grandeur and imaginative force which had no precedent. No sculptor since the ancient Greeks had given such sublime embodiment to the ideál of physical beauty as Michelangelo in such masterpieces as the Dávid in Florence, or the allegorical figures in the Medici chapel in that city. In the latter we discern the beginnings of the feeling of sombre disillusionment that was henceforth to dominate his work. Finally, in his two last Pietá, he expressed with passionate intensity the deep religious feeling of his last years. Technically, in these late works Michelangelo embarked on as yet untrodden paths. But from the time of his early maturity onwards, his mastery of the humán form (even in its most complex poses), his plastic conception of his art, and his insistence that the sculpture should grow from the stone block, all revealed new potentialities to sculptors in his own day. THAMES AND HUDSON Printed in Italy isbn 0 500 41036 4 Vissza