FAH230H1 Final: FAH230H1 Lecture :
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Week 8: raphael and michelangelo at work: art and architecture; the renaissance body and the practice of drawing. Commissioned for st peters by a french cardinal. Work that he did when he was very young. Earliest great works of art that michelangelo did. Requested to be the most beautiful work in rome. Formal analysis: mother keeps the son under her arms, she is very young and very serene, moment of death of christ. Michelangelo decided to compose madonna as very serene. There are many folds on the clothes; creates a kind of symmetric look. The sculpture is signed on the bands of the chest of madonna; signals his own authorship and in latin. Carved from a single block of marble. Notion of monumentality; 4 m, double the size of human size. Weight of the body rests on one leg; distortion of the torso. Head and shoulder is on the other size.
