Michelangelo’s incredibly long career meant that he was old for a very long time, and the idea of death, and of what comes afterwards, hang over many of the projects he worked on late in life. We discuss his pivotal role in the design of St Peter’s in Rome, the sombre and terrible ‘Last Judgement’ in the Sistene Chapel, and a series of fragmentary late drawings, designs and sculptures which seem to be pointing to the future and the past at the same time.

It’s been about four hours of solid Michelangelo now, and it’s time to send him (and the other cast of characters) into the tender arms of our Lord & Saviour. It'll be back to late Capitalism next time.

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Music –
Gervaise 'Bransles de Bourgogne'
from Gothic and Renaissance Dances at https://archive.org/details/GOTHICANDRENAISSANCEDANCES
Vocal Ansambl Gordela ‘Zinzkaro’
Lee Rosevere ‘Dream Colours’ from the album Time-Lapse Volume 4 Sleep Music
at the Free Music Archive at freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere
Ago ‘Trying Over’ (1982)

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