Heres a virtual movie of the great Michelangelo painter and sculptor and poet and artist in many fields reading his poem "Reflections on Death" The poem was written late in his life and this is an ...
Heres a virtual movie of the great Michelangelo painter and sculptor and poet and artist in many fields reading his poem "Reflections on Death" The poem was written late in his life and this is an English translation of it. Michelangelo died on February 18th, 1564, after suffering from a slow fever. His remains were taken to Santa Croce and the people of Florence turned out in large numbers to honor the "father and master of all the arts."
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni [1] (March 6, 1475 February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.
Michelangelo's output in every field during his long life was prodigious; when the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences that survive is also taken into account, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century. Two of his best-known works, the Pietà and David, were sculpted before he turned thirty. Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. At 74 Michelangelo succeeded Antonio da Sangallo the Younger as the architect of Saint Peter's Basilica in the same city; the church's west end as it appears today, including the dome, was largely built according to his revised design.
In a demonstration of Michelangelo's unique standing, he was the first Western artist whose biography was published while he was alive.[2] Two biographies were published of him during his lifetime; one of them, by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that he was the pinnacle of all artistic achievement since the beginning of the Renaissance, a viewpoint that continued to have currency in art history for centuries. In his lifetime he was also often called Il Divino ("the divine one").[3] One of the qualities most admired by his contemporaries was his terribilità, a sense of awe-inspiring grandeur, and it was the attempts of subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo's impassioned and highly personal style that resulted in the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance, Mannerism.
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I believe these animations of the famous greats of yester year are both vital and important to provide the most integral insight for poetry. Their essential!
There are many versions of this poem, from what I understand; likely the result of differing translations from Italian to English and the preferences of individual translators.
Thanks Distracted for putting me onto this one if you know where I can find a text for this poem on the net to copy and paste I will add it to the accompanying notes.
If any youtubers know who is reading this can they please let me know.
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There are many versions of this poem, from what I understand; likely the result of differing translations from Italian to English and the preferences of individual translators.
If any youtubers know who is reading this can they please let me know.
Kind Regards
Jim Clark