AHST 1304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Santa Croce, Florence, Accademia Di Belle Arti Di Firenze, Giorgio Vasari
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Monument to michelangelo, c. 1570, by giorgio vasari, santa croce, florence, italy. 3 women for 3 main art forms he worked with. Heart of the catholic church over st. peter"s grave. He leaves florence and comes to rome to do the: He went to carrera, white plate marble and picked out his own block. Pieta = mother mary holding his dead son. Emotional, graphically expressive, same grieving horrible motion, sense of torture broken body of christ. Michelangelo broke from the pictorial tradition, it is not as graphic. He idealized the image: mary"s youth, lack of graphic details. Real: (michelangelo has been dissecting and working on the body. ) Excellent knowledge of muscle in the torso, veins, tendons all throughout. When michelangelo finished it, people didn"t believe that the man could do something so magnificent. And the story is michelangelo sneaked into the church and carved his name on to the statue to prove that he did.
