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Villagers Claim Church Fresco Is Lost Michaelangelo
The Guardian (UK) ^
| 2-23-2006
| John Hooper
Posted on 02/23/2006 10:46:13 AM PST by blam
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posted on
02/23/2006 10:46:18 AM PST
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blam
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
02/23/2006 10:47:19 AM PST
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blam
To: blam
"a retired chemist and the head of a local cultural association who is leading a campaign to have the fresco examined by experts, told the Guardian yesterday that the M and B were "exactly the same"" I suppose they are awaiting confirmation by a local wharf worker and union-steward?
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posted on
02/23/2006 10:52:06 AM PST
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(GWBush for Commish of Baseball! Pass it on.)
To: blam
How could it be "Lost" if everybody always knew where it was?........
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posted on
02/23/2006 10:52:29 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him...)
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
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posted on
02/23/2006 10:53:05 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him...)
To: Red Badger
Better than a NAMBLA babysitter...Oh....I though you said GLTB. My bad [snicker]
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posted on
02/23/2006 10:56:09 AM PST
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Cletus.D.Yokel
(GWBush for Commish of Baseball! Pass it on.)
To: blam
Hmm... from what one could see in newspaper photo, the fresco reproduced in the Guardian does not look like his work in the least: compare with his "Madonna Doni", or with his Bolognese sculptures carved around the same 1494 - even in his youth Michelangelo was already doing better faces and better bodies.
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posted on
02/23/2006 10:58:09 AM PST
by
GSlob
To: blam; Revolting cat!
M.C. Boone
He later went on to find fame in toilet seat art
(Sorry I nicked the name from National Lampoon's radio presentation of The Immigrants: The Hillbilly).
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posted on
02/23/2006 10:59:43 AM PST
by
weegee
("Remember Chappaquiddick!"-Paul Trost (during speech by Ted Kennedy at Massasoit Community College))
To: GSlob
I agree.... it doesn't have the "Wow" factor of his known works.
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posted on
02/23/2006 11:00:28 AM PST
by
Dansong
To: blam
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posted on
02/23/2006 11:01:02 AM PST
by
weegee
("Remember Chappaquiddick!"-Paul Trost (during speech by Ted Kennedy at Massasoit Community College))
To: blam
I'm no expert, but the poses and arrangement of the figures just does not look like Michelangelo. Christ in particular looks unnatural. The musculature and drapery looks wrong too.
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02/23/2006 11:01:16 AM PST
by
Andyman
(God loves you just the way you are . . . but too much to leave you that way.)
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
GBLT? Gravy on Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato?
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02/23/2006 11:01:46 AM PST
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weegee
("Remember Chappaquiddick!"-Paul Trost (during speech by Ted Kennedy at Massasoit Community College))
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posted on
02/23/2006 11:03:44 AM PST
by
Pyro7480
(Sancte Joseph, terror daemonum, ora pro nobis!)
To: Andyman
It is very un-natural looking isn't it. Look at the length of Christ's legs. It would be exciting ot find a real lost work- but I don't have a good feeling about this being Michelangelo's work.
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posted on
02/23/2006 11:05:38 AM PST
by
Diva Betsy Ross
(Embrace peace- Hug an American soldier- the real peace keepers.)
To: Diva Betsy Ross; Andyman
Well the story said that he might have done this as a young man. The works with which we are more familiar were done when he was older, so why couldn't his style have changed somewhat, and matured over the years?
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posted on
02/23/2006 11:12:02 AM PST
by
SuziQ
To: Andyman
Early youth. When you guide and counsel a talented young artist you discover what maturation really means ~ and they don't get mature in any particular element until they've done it a gazillion times.
Still, every now and then you get a first-class piece that takes your breath away.
I don't see why Michelangelo should be different.
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posted on
02/23/2006 11:14:04 AM PST
by
muawiyah
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To: SuziQ
Ok- I guess they could have changed.
I don't really have any good reason to doubt it , other than based upon my readings of his life and personal viewings of his works- it just doesn't feel right, to me.
But again- I think it would be an exciting story if I were wrong.
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02/23/2006 11:16:18 AM PST
by
Diva Betsy Ross
(Embrace peace- Hug an American soldier- the real peace keepers.)
To: Andyman
But there are aspects that we see in mature Michelangelo. Excellent sense of composition is one. Interest in athletic, even beefy body. Realistic, rather than symbolic landscape and drapery.
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posted on
02/23/2006 11:20:56 AM PST
by
annalex
To: Diva Betsy Ross; Andyman; blam
He didn't particularly like working in fresco either, is that right? The Sistine Chapel was not a project he enjoyed.
Or am I imagining that?
If this fresco is really from his youth, maybe it is what lead to his antipathy toward fresco. The figures do seem stylized.
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posted on
02/23/2006 11:23:15 AM PST
by
siunevada
(If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
To: Republicanprofessor; Sam Cree
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02/23/2006 11:24:18 AM PST
by
ELS
(Vivat Benedictus XVI!)
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