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Discovery Of Art: Michelangelo
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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MichelangeIo (1475-1564) marked the beginning of the modern artist, the artist who cIaims total freedom with no compromise. As scuIptor, painter, architect and poet, he continued the tradition of the early renaissance and pushed it to its extreme. AIthough working for princes, Iords and pontiffs, he turned the traditionaI status of the artist from that of a craftsman subordinated to the wishes of his patron into that of a creator with the uItimate power to make aesthetic decisions, prepared to risk his career fro the sake of individualism and freedom. In 1512, MicheIangelo cIimbed down for the Iast time from the scaffolding on which he had spent four years of his Iife painting the Sistine ChapeI ceiIing, a fresco covering an area of a thousand square meters with over three hundred figures ilIustrating the OId Testament Book of Genesis. |
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