Posted on 03/18/2006 4:40:46 AM PST by billorites
pingy.
Stopped reading after this ...
Yeah, me too.
What a sicko.
This is British journalistic writing at its worst. Dry, self-important, full of colonialist superiority undertones, and lacking content. Other than that, the bloke was lucky to have seen that masterpiece up close.
Bravo Sierra
Free Willy!
So.....Michelangelo was a fag. I did not know that.
I skimmed through to the end - it's an interesting read, that the painter was such a productive character throughout his 87 years. The author says Michaelangelo (sp?) was able to capture and illustrate the rendition of figures in motion ... the straining and pulling and grasping ... but read the whole thing; it's mildly interesting.
I once accidentally poked my finger into a Giotto at the National Gallery. Thank goodness the guy knew how to mix his pigments.
Hey, Waldemar!
No idea about the writer's proclivities. In any case, all of that was irrelevant.
It's worth reading to get an idea of what else Michelangelo was up to ~ note the little character defecating in a corner ~ that shows up in the work of other well known artists, although maybe not as visibly. Sometimes an artist whose speciality is the human form will be badgered into doing a landscape ~ that figure will be in there. Or, maybe the poor abused artist will end up showing cattle breeding (Picasso is a good example of that).
I enjoyed the article and look forward to the publication of the gallery book featuring 300 of his drawings.
Another figure I touched while the restorers’ backs were turned was a biblical character called Booz,
Is the name "Booz" supposed to be some sort of play on words or is the guy really that ignorant?
Is the name "Booz" supposed to be some sort of play on words or is the guy really that ignorant?
You know, without even reading down the thread ( or having read the article beyond the first few paragraphs ), I'm going to hazard a guess: the author of the article is gay.
Thanks for posting. Good article.
His dismissal of the artist's drawing multiple images on
the page or the use of both sides of a sheet, show his lack
of knowledge about the era. Paper was not available by the
ream then, and was a valuable commodity.
How I would have loved to see them myself!
The most interesting thing from Michaelangelo that I saw was when the Vatican had items on tour around the United States. It was a letter to a supplier of marble, and in it, Michaelangelo was complaining about poor service, and even name dropped with some veiled threats. Amusing.
Michelangelo was a genius and he was most certainly a homosexual.
If he had been born today, he probably would have been a fabulous interior decorator.
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