October 2009
Beginner
376 pages
14h 37m
English
A STUDY OF THE SUBLIME
By all accounts, artist, sculptor, architect, and poet Michelangelo Buonarroti was a cantankerous man prone to angry outbursts. He maintained an openly public rivalry with notable contemporary Leonardo da Vinci, and had few friends during his lifetime. Yet Michelangelo’s unpleasant disposition did not corrupt his artistic sensibilities; perhaps it even enhanced them. Many historians and philosophers have described Michelangelo’s art as virtually flawless, taking note in particular of its terribilita, a somewhat fluid term that refers to the artistic expression of ...
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