HISTART 62 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Sandro Botticelli
15 Nov 2016
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Michelangelo studied in bologna at a very young age. The face is slightly more realistic with strong facial features. The drapery in the skirt and robe is reminiscent of the pieta and other sistine chapel scenes. The hair is naturalistic (as if you could run your hands through it) He creates the wings as a whole, rather than the traditional method of carving each feather according to how birds" wings look. Anachronism he is carving something outside of time. He is playing to iconographic standards (e. g. mary stands for purity and goodness, and is presented as a young woman to convey such virtues) The chapel was originally decorated by botticelli. He tells the story of the creation of the world on the ceiling. Plays with optical effects to produce life-like figures (despite the face that they are painted and two-dimensional) His characters are something in-between life and architecture. Michelangelo works to bring out light and darkness.
