Michelangelo’s Last JudgementMichelangelo’s mammoth (nearly 45 by 40 feet) painting ‘Last Judgement.’ The Last Judgment is painted on the Sistine Chapel altar wall in Rome. Michelangelo wrote over three hundred poems, sonnets and madrigals. ‘To the Supreme Being’ by: Michelangelo BuonarrotiThe prayers I make will then be sweet indeedIf Thou the spirit give by which […]
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Michelangelo’s DavidMichelangelo’s ‘David’ statue is probably the most famous nude man of all time. Few of Michelangelo’s sketches exist, once completed, he often destroyed his designs.The ‘uncensored version of David is further down the page. Michelangelo wrote over three hundred poems, sonnets and madrigals. ‘Dante’ by: Michelangelo BuonarrotiWhat should be said of him cannot be
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Adam and Eve by MichelangeloMuch of Michelangelo’s work in the Sistine Chapel was based on Old Testament Bible stories.Michelangelo wrote over three hundred poems, sonnets and madrigals. ‘Vittoria Colonna*’ by: Michelangelo BuonarrotiWhen the prime mover of many sighsHeaven took through death from out her earthly place,Nature, that never made so fair a face,Remained ashamed, and
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The Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo The Sistine Chapel took approximately four years to complete (1508–1512), the entire ceiling was painted while on his back.Some of the nudity within his artwork was not always apprecited by the religious hierarchy. Today it has been referred to as ‘homoerotic’ but we will never know the personal details of
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The Battle of Cascina by MichelangeloAristotele da Sangallo’s drawing of Michelangelo’s work is all that remains of ‘The Battle of Cascina’ (fought on July 28, 1364 between the troops of Florence and Pisa) and was a planned paired painting with ‘The Battle of Anghiari’ (fought on June 29, 1440 against Milan, painted in 1505) which
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Genesis (Creation of Adam) by Michelangelo BuonarrotiGenesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. The 500 square foot art includes nine stories from The Bible, Adam and Eve, prophets, the creation of Earth, the Moon, the Sun and the Garden of Eden. Many of the central characters were surrounded by beings; muses, angels,
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Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born on March 6 1475 in Caprese Italy. His father worked for the government was called, soon after, to work in Florence and it was Florence that Michelangelo would call home. Michelangelo was born in what we now call the Renaissance Period. The Renaissance was from the 14th century
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Ed “Big Daddy” Roth was an artist, cartoonist, illustrator, pinstriper and custom car designer and builder who created the hot-rod icon Rat Fink and many other characters. His style was a major influence on counter-culture artists like Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson and Stanley Mouse. Roth was a key figure in Southern California’s Kustom Kulture,
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The Picture of Dorian Gray was the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. The picture below was by Ivan Albright, for the 1945 film. The painting was made, and slowly changed/repainted/updated as Dorian descended into dark hedonism. The novel tells of a young man named Dorian
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