Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut.
Kimbell Art Museum, purchased from Sotheby's auction, Catalogue of Old Masters sale (Lot No. 69), 9 July 2008 by Adam Williams Fine Art, New York, as "Workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio". Subsequently purchased by the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas and attributed to Michelangelo. [10] [11] Madonna and Child with Saint John and Angels
Wallace claims that the disproportionate quality of the figures is not a failing on the part of Michelangelo, but rather another instance of his genius. It is not even an instance of something new. In this particular case, Michelangelo used proportion in order to compensate for certain discrepancies caused by different perspectives.
A new version was hurriedly substituted in 1519–1520 to fulfil the terms of the contract. Michelangelo worked on it in Florence, and the move to Rome and final touches were entrusted to an apprentice, Pietro Urbano; the latter, however, damaged the work and had to be quickly replaced by Federico Frizzi at the suggestion of Sebastiano del Piombo.
While Michelangelo's David is the most famous male nude of all time, some of his other works have had perhaps even greater impact on the course of art. The twisting forms and tensions of the Victory , the Bruges Madonna and the Medici Madonna make them the heralds of the Mannerist art.
Elkins, James. “Michelangelo and the Human Form: His Knowledge and use of Anatomy.” Art History 7, no. 2 (June 1984): 176–186. E. Wallace, William. “Narrative and Religious Expression in Michelangelo's Pauline Chapel.” Artibus et Historiae 10, no. 19 (1989): 107–121. Kuntz, Margaret.
From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.
Michelangelo [2] Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle: Sculpture (Ivory) Apollo Sauroctonos (Apollo Lizard-killer) Sculpture (Roman) Marcellus as Hermes Logios: Sculpture (Roman) Ship of Fools: Painting Hieronymus Bosch: Portrait of a Princess: Painting Pisanello: Madonna della Vittoria: Painting Andrea Mantegna: Triumph of the Virtues ...