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The statue of an Angel (1494–1495) was created by Michelangelo out of marble. Its height is 51.5 cm. Its height is 51.5 cm. It is situated in the Basilica of San Domenico , Bologna .
The kneeling Angel is an early work, one of several that Michelangelo created as part of a large decorative scheme for the Arca di San Domenico in the church dedicated to that saint in Bologna. Several other artists had worked on the scheme, beginning with Nicola Pisano in the 13th century.
The Madonna and Child with St John and Angels (c. 1497), also known as The Manchester Madonna, is an unfinished painting in the National Gallery, London, attributed to Michelangelo. [1] It is one of three surviving panel paintings attributed to the artist and has been dated to his first period in Rome .
Crucifix of Montserrat (in Spanish) c. 1497–1498: Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey, Monistrol de Montserrat: Ivory Naked man I (in Italian) c. 1501–1504: Casa Buonarroti, Florence Terracotta height 49 cm Importuno di Michelangelo: c. 1504 Palazzo Vecchio, Florence Pietraforte Rothschild Bronzes [6] 1506–1508 Fitzwilliam Museum: Bronze
It was sculpted around 1490, when Michelangelo was about fifteen. This and the Battle of the Centaurs were Michelangelo's first two sculptures. The first reference to the Madonna of the Stairs as a work by Michelangelo was in the 1568 edition of Giorgio Vasari 's Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects .
The first kneeling window is traditionally the one in Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence, attributed to Michelangelo [1] It was made to occupy the large arch of a portal that once led to a family loggia. Among the architects who indulged in the creation and decoration of kneeling windows were Bartolomeo Ammannati and Bernardo Buontalenti.
More than 3,000 people have signed a petition urging the owners of a chapel-turned bar in a Maryland hotel to abstain from serving liquor from the former high altar.
The angels, which mirror each other, each have quite individual drapery. A hundred years later, Masaccio, still within the constraints of the formal altarpiece, confidently creates a three-dimensional figure draped in heavy robes, her chubby Christ Child sucking on his fingers. The lutes played by the little angels are both steeply foreshortened.