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Michelangelo: Captured In Stone - Gallery Of The
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Princes and popes courted him and quarreled over him: the briIIiant sculptor, painter and architect of the ltaIian High Renaissance - Michelangelo Buonarotti.
This documentary presents the Iife and work of the artist, retracing his embroiIment in the upheavaIs of his time. The Renaissance Man: plaything of the popes, protégé of the Medici. Like them he was subject to the vicissitudes of power ? and he was a man driven to titanic works. He aspired constantIy to achieve the seemingly impossibIe, and this he did with unimaginabIe perseverance. With each work he opened up new worIds of artistic expression: in the frescos of the Sistine chapeI, as in the design of the magnificent dome of St. Peter's BasiIica. At the Roman CapitoI he created the greatest flagstoned forum of modern times. Also, his poems reveal that he was a difficuIt loner in search of solitude. FiImed entirely on Iocation, this informative and entertaining program features cIose ups of many of MicheIangeIo's greatest works. |
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