Michelangelo: A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Master, with Introduction and Interpretation
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art. Michelangelo's place in the world of art is altogether unique. His supremacy is acknowledged by all, but is understood by a few only. This book helps readers learn about this influential artist through his work.
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Michelangelo - Estelle M. Hurll
Estelle M. Hurll
Michelangelo
A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Master, with Introduction and Interpretation
Published by Good Press, 2022
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EAN 4057664628701
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CONTENTS AND LIST OF PICTURES
INTRODUCTION
I. ON MICHELANGELO'S CHARACTER AS AN ARTIST.
II. ON BOOKS OF REFERENCE.
III. HISTORICAL DIRECTORY OF THE WORKS OF ART IN THIS COLLECTION.
IV. COLLATERAL READINGS FROM LITERATURE.
V. OUTLINE TABLE OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN MICHELANGELO'S LIFE.
VI. SOME OF MICHELANGELO'S FAMOUS ITALIAN CONTEMPORARIES.
Rulers.
Men of Letters.
Group centring about Lorenzo the Magnificent in Florence.
Group in Rome :—
PAINTERS.
MISCELLANEOUS.
I
THE MADONNA AND CHILD
II
DAVID
III
CUPID
IV
MOSES
V
THE HOLY FAMILY
VI
THE PIETÀ
VII
CHRIST TRIUMPHANT
VIII
THE CREATION OF MAN
IX
JEREMIAH
X
DANIEL
XI
THE DELPHIC SIBYL
XII
THE CUMÆAN SIBYL
XIII
LORENZO DE' MEDICI
XIV
THE TOMB OF GIULIANO DE' MEDICI
XV
CENTRAL FIGURES IN THE LAST JUDGMENT
XVI
PORTRAIT
PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY OF PROPER NAMES AND FOREIGN WORDS
AUTHORS' PORTRAITS
PREFACE
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In making a collection of prints from the works of Michelangelo, it is impossible to secure any wide variety, either in subject or method of treatment. We are dealing here with a master whose import is always serious, and whose artistic individuality is strongly impressed on all his works, either in sculpture or painting. Our selections represent his best work in both arts. These are arranged, not in chronological order, but in a way which will lead the student from the subjects most familiar and easily understood to those which are more abstract and difficult.
ESTELLE M. HURLL.
New Bedford, Mass.
January, 1900.
CONTENTS AND LIST OF PICTURES
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Note
: All the pictures with the exception of the Cupid were made from photographs by Fratelli Alinari. The Cupid was photographed from the statue in the South Kensington Museum, London.
INTRODUCTION
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I. ON MICHELANGELO'S CHARACTER AS AN ARTIST.
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Michelangelo's place in the world of art is altogether unique. His supremacy is acknowledged by all, but is understood by a few only. In the presence of his works none can stand unimpressed, yet few dare to claim any intimate knowledge of his art. The quality so vividly described in the Italian word terribilità is his predominant trait. He is one to awe rather than to attract, to overwhelm rather than to delight. The spectator must needs exclaim with humility, Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Yet while Michelangelo can never be a popular artist in the ordinary sense of the word, the powerful influence which he exercises seems constantly increasing. Year by year there are more who, drawn by the strange fascination of his genius, seek to read the meaning of his art.
His subjects are all profoundly serious in intention. Life was no holiday to this strenuous spirit; it was a stern conflict with the powers of darkness in which such heroes as David and Moses were needed. Like the old Hebrew prophets, the artist poured out his soul in a vehement protest against evil, and a stirring call to righteousness.
Considered both as a sculptor and a painter, Michelangelo's one vehicle of expression was the human body. His works are form-poems,
through which he uttered his message to mankind. As he writes in one of his own sonnets,
"Nor hath God deigned to show himself elsewhere
More clearly than in human forms sublime."
In his art, says the critic Symonds, a well-shaped hand, or throat, or head, a neck superbly poised on an athletic chest, the sway of the trunk above the hips, the starting of the muscles on the flank, the tendons of the ankle, the outline of the shoulder when the arm is raised, the backward bending of the loins, the curves of a woman's breast, the contours of a body careless in repose or strained for action, were all words pregnant with profoundest meaning, whereby fit utterance might be given to thoughts that raise man near to God.
Learning his first lessons in art of the Greeks, he soon possessed himself of the great principles of classic sculpture. Then he boldly struck out his own path; his was a spirit to lead, not to follow. With the subtle Greek sense of line and form, he united an entirely new motif. In contrast to the ideal of repose which was the leading canon of the Greeks, his chosen ideal was one of action. Moreover, he invariably fixed upon some decisive moment in the action he had to represent, a moment which suggests both the one preceding and the one following, and which gives us the whole story in epitome. Thus in the David we see preparation, aim, and action. It was a far cry from the elegant calm of the Greek god to the restless energy of this rugged youth.
Even with seated figures he followed the same principle. Moses and the Duke Giuliano are ready to rise to their feet if need be. In his frescoes we again find the same motif,—Adam rising to his feet in obedience to the Creator's summons, and Christ the Judge sweeping asunder the multitudes.
In his love of action and his passion for the human form lay the elements of his art most easily lending themselves to exaggeration. That the master did indeed permit himself to be carried beyond due limits in these matters is seen by comparing the grandeur of the Sistine ceiling with the mannerisms