by | Dec 17, 2010 | Renaissance Art
Giorno E Notte Firenze November 9, 2010 Raffaella Marcucci – La Nazione The Casa Buonarroti this year will be open to double its visitors from ten thousand to twenty thousand, this is also thanks to the synergy established last April with the Basilica of Santa...
by Rob Jollymore | Sep 14, 2010 | Michelangelo Sculptures
David (Michelangelo) Circa 1501-4; height 16 ft 10 in. Michelangelo’s monumental David differs greatly from earlier interpretations of this subject by Donatello and Verrocchio. Whereas the earlier masters had depicted David victorious over the slain Goliath, many...
by Rob Jollymore | Sep 12, 2010 | Michelangelo Sculptures
Michelangelo’s Moses (ca. 1513-1516; height ~92.5 inches) San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome The powerful and majestic figure of Moses is depicted during the most important moment in his life. The plates of the Ten Commandments indicate that he has come from Mount...
by Rob Jollymore | Sep 11, 2010 | Michelangelo Sculptures
Bust of Giuliano De’ Medici (1519; height 25 ½ inches) In 1519, Michelangelo was commissioned by Pope Leo X and his cousin, Cardinal Giulio de Medici (later Pope Clement VII), to create the marble portraits of Lorenzo and Giuliano de Medici for the family’s Chapel San...
by Rob Jollymore | Sep 9, 2010 | Michelangelo Sculptures
The Bruges Madonna and Child (height 49 inches, depth 28 inches, width 24 inches Early in 1504, even as the David received its finishing touches, Michelangelo was already at work on a free-standing marble statue of the Madonna and Child. The Bruges Madonna, as it is...
