ITALIAN 42A Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Piazza Della Signoria, Individualism
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There was an art school where part of the student"s job was to imitate sculptures. Michaelangelo was sent here and he sculpted the head of a fawn and he had a witty exchange with lorenzo. Michaelangelo is sent to rome by julius ll. The lives, p. 462: giving so much power to the paintings that he attested to the saying of dante: the dead seemed dead, and the living seemed alive. " . One person complained about the prevalence of nudity in the sistine. Michaelangelo added him in hell and he depicts him as one of the infernal judges of hell: minos. Minos was depicted as the pope"s master of ceremonies. In the center of the last judgment is mary and jesus. There is also a scene of noah and the flood. The judgment is more pessimistic in general. It was the beginning of the protestant reformation. Clement 7th is the nephew of lorenzo the magnificent.
