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...pose is an amalgam of Buonarotti's Bound Slave and the Pietá in the Florence cathedral; the sense of the figure emerging like a captive from its shroud of bronze is profoundly Michelangelesque. Above all, there is the sense of intellectual energy, of a powerful mind striking to the core of problems which it alone could formulate. Perhaps Matisse was not as "radical" a sculptor as he was a painter. His sculpture was avowedly traditional; it addressed itself, as his paintings did, to the classic themes of the erect or reclining figure, the portrait and the nude...
Michael Angelo Buonarotti's career was one of incredible energy. Surrounded by the treachery and jealousies of the Renaissance, he preserved his life and his artistic integrity for nearly 90 years. While yet in his 20's he had done the Pieta of St. Peter's, the David of Florence, had become a national figure and a centre of dissension. When he was a boy, Lorenzo de' Medici was his patron, and his intermittent allegiance to that family was finally commemorated in the dreamy Medici Chapel of San Lorenzo. Six Popes employed him. An ever-unfinished undertaking for a tomb...
...Washington Gladden, D.D., gave the second of the William Belden Noble lectures in Phillips Brooks House last evening on "Michelangelo Buonarotti, the Artist." Michelangelo, he said, was a lover of beauty, a loyal friend of freedom and justice, and a true servant of the God of light and love...
...William Belden Noble Lecture. Witnesses of the Light. II. Michaelangelo Buonarotti, the Artist. Rev. Washington Gladden, D.D. Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House...
...second William Belden Noble lecture will be given by Dr. Gladden in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, at 8 o'clock this evening. The subject will be "Michaelangelo Buonarotti, the Artist." The lecture will be open to the public...