Michelangelo Buonarroti: The Dream, A Drawing in Focus

Dr Stephanie Buck, Curator of Drawings, explains the complexities of Michelangelo's masterpiece The Dream (Il Sogno), which has been described as one of the finest of all Renaissance drawings and it is amongst The Courtauld Gallery's greatest treasures. The drawing was the foundation of a 2010 exhibition that examined this celebrated work in the context of an exceptional group of closely related drawings by Michelangelo, as well as original letters and poems by the artist and works by his contemporaries.

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[MrSchultzstaffel]

@capi7al ...as soon as you put that crack pipe down then you might get another one!

[capi7al]

@MrSchultzstaffel is that the only reply you can think of?

[MrSchultzstaffel]

@capi7al ......I told you to put down that crack pipe! I didn't tell you to light up two more! =O

[capi7al]

@MrSchultzstaffel "... I never have found it to be appealing"... also "It lacks an element of individual human expression within it's Greek confines"

greek idealism is awesome but your entitled to your own tastes. my comment was absurd. i dont smoke crack

[MrSchultzstaffel]

@capi7al I didn't say that I did...I said that you need to go back to your crack pipe!

[capi7al]

@MrSchultzstaffel dont hate on the greeks dude, there style is very good.

[MrSchultzstaffel]

@capi7al Put down your crack pipe.

[capi7al]

@MrSchultzstaffel pretentious, almost meaningless, disrespectful and ignorant....the usual style of modernist art critics

[MrSchultzstaffel]

Contorted, twisted muscularity......wide-waisted, narrow-shouldered......physica­lly disproportionate......the usual style of Italian Renaissance artistry. His sculpture usually took on a more realistic look...but this is a stylized take on the Greek method of representing the human form...and I never have found it to be appealing. It lacks an element of individual human expression within it's Greek confines. All bodies are different, develop differently and have their own signature look to them.

[peficaro]

wonderfull drawing but lowsy explanation. Obvioulsy the angel is apealing to the young man who represents mankind a way for a new perspective on life away from all the knowned vices directly into his 3eye