Blogs about: Michelangelo

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Creative Nonfiction, As I See It4 comments

fistfulofwater wrote 9 hours ago: Recently, at a gathering of writers, a fiction writer happened to comment that nonfiction writing do … more »

Tags: Thoughts on Writing, Artist, Artistic, Creative Nonfiction, Creativity, Fantasy, Fiction, memoir, page

Michelangelo's Unfinished Slaves

claralieu wrote 5 days ago: I’m getting closer to being able to define the approach I want to take with these figure sculp … more »

Tags: Artists, Sculpture, Drawing, figure sculpture, Florence, pompeii

Two Artist's fighting.

Sheila Morley wrote 6 days ago: Did you ever hear the story about the competition between Michelangelo and Leonardo Divinci?  You c … more »

Tags: Art History, Art, paint, sculpt, Leonardo, Print

Northeastern Tuscany

mytuscany wrote 1 week ago: Arezzo’s province stretches from the thickly forested mountains of the Casentino in the north, … more »

Tags: Tuscany, arezzo, Cortona, Italy, Montepulciano, Toscana

Books, Giants and Universe1 comment

murz wrote 1 week ago: Reading the last chapter of a biography is always difficult, because I know how it ends. Naturally. … more »

Tags: Journal, book, Leonardo, rembrandt, Sagan

Michelangelo's First Two Statues12 comments

100swallows wrote 1 week ago: Michelangelo got his first commission in Bologna: two small statues of saints. He had been studying … more »

Tags: Aesthetics, Art, Art History, Beauty, Great Artists, renaissance, Sculpture, stone carving, Clothes

Who Killed My God?1 comment

soulintention wrote 2 weeks ago: In 2005 at the American Magazine Conference (AMC) the American Society of Magazine Editor unveiled … more »

Tags: Awards, Life, Magazines, media, Opinions, publications, Random, Thoughts, writing

Michelangelo's Marble Quarries Today6 comments

100swallows wrote 2 weeks ago: Michelangelo was not lazy but in his whole life—a long one—he finished only about twelve or four … more »

Tags: Art, Art History, Great Artists, renaissance, Sculpture, stone carving, Carrara, Florence, Italy

The Sistine Wall2 comments

100swallows wrote 3 weeks ago: What does a painter want? He wants an empty wall, big as a church, that everyone will see, and freed … more »

Tags: Art, Art History, Great Artists, renaissance, Dante, Demons, fresco, hell, Sistine Chapel

A Book for a Bankbook

ocsitville wrote 3 weeks ago: Heavyweight. Literally or otherwise, that’s the word to describe Italy’s new art masterp … more »

Tags: luxury publishing, La Dotta Mano, Aurelio Amendola

The David2 comments

Alexa Cohen wrote 3 weeks ago: Yesterday I read an article. It mentioned when Michelangelo’s Statue of David was first insta … more »

Tags: I cannot think of any., Art, David

Time to beat Shredder, the illegal way!

darkkittenproductions wrote 1 month ago: As we were younger, we all used to love watching TV. Especially when our favorite Saturday morning c … more »

Tags: Bootlegged Stuff, card, Game, Teenage, Mutant, Ninja, Turtles, hilarious, bootleg

Michelangelo As Gladiator6 comments

100swallows wrote 1 month ago: One of the most memorable adventures in the whole Michelangelo legend is his famous flight out of Ro … more »

Tags: Art, Art History, Great Artists, Pope Julius II, renaissance, Sculpture, stone carving, angry flight, Pope Julius

But is it Art? part 1.

Layla wrote 1 month ago: Sydney Police Shutdown Exhibition Australian police have shutdown a photographic exhibition that inc … more »

Tags: Art, Anne Geddes, Art vs. Pornography, Bill Heson, Cezanne, child pornography, "Da Vinci", Indecency, Manet

Michelangelo and Bernini30 comments

100swallows wrote 1 month ago: Robert Mileham wrote: I mean no disrespect for either of these two great sculptors. They, like Beeth … more »

Tags: Art, Sculpture, Great Artists, Bernini, Beauty, stone carving, Art History, renaissance, Aesthetics

Was Michelangelo Crooked ? (Part 4)3 comments

100swallows wrote 1 month ago: The Cupid fraud is the last one the biographers mention. Did Michelangelo learn his lesson and get b … more »

Tags: Art, Art History, Pieta, renaissance, stone carving, the David, Vasari, Add new tag, Bernini

sketch after Michelangelo

I, Enoch wrote 1 month ago: sketch after Michelangelo sketch after Francis Bacon … more »

Tags: Art, Body, death march, Drawing, Francis Bacon, Francis Bacon and furniture, huddled mass, Sketch, sketch after Michelangelo

Trifles

Quote-ster wrote 1 month ago: Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. -Michelangelo, 1475-1564, Italian Renaissance … more »

Tags: quotation, Trifles, perfection

Sistine set-up: the 500-year-old art mystery

balkan wrote 1 month ago: Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel has inspired and enthralled millions but none who has craned in … more »

Tags: Art, Culture, News, Painters, Paintings, Review, Sistine


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