Michelangelo's poetry
The idea inside the block
Answer to the following questions
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When was Michelangelo born?
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Where is Caprese?
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How old was Michelangelo when he began to spend his time at the "Giardino di San Marco"?
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Which were the favourite subject of Michelangelo's sketches?
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Architectures
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Landscapes
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Classic works
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Lady portrait
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Who was Michelangelo's first patron?
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Michelangelo felt to be above all...
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a poet
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a sculptor
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a painter
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an architect
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When Michelangelo carves the marble...
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he tryes to invent something new
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he works as if the sculpture already exists in his mind
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he wants to give his idea to the block
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he works as if the figure already exists inside the stone
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For Michelangelo carving is...
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removing the excess to let the "idea" free
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applying new matter to model the statue
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giving to the stone a form that already exist in his mind
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giving to the stone the form of the "idea"
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The fight between man and his destiny is represented by
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the act of carving itself
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neoplatonic philosophy
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the attempt to make the sculpture free from the matter
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the comparison between the original and the copy