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That evening, at a glittering dinner in Israel's parliament, the Knesset, Mitterrand warned his hosts that not all of his views would please them. "But you will understand," he said, standing beneath a Marc Chagall fresco depicting the Jews' return to Israel, "that a friend can only be your friend if he preserves his freedom of judgment and tells you what he thinks." The next day, in an address before the Knesset, Mitterrand spelled out publicly what he had told Begin privately: Israel must recognize the Palestinian demand for an independent state. "What I want to make...
Then there is the refusal to submit to external schemes or narratives. The Gates of Hell cannot be read as clearly as a Renaissance fresco or a medieval Last Judgment. It is less about divine doom than the condition of secular despair, mauvaise foi, the unrooting of the self-a vast and almost illegibly complex dirge that touches now and then on the original imagery of the Inferno but does not, in any strict sense, illustrate it. Yet its formal properties-the sudden shifts of scale, the aggressive protrusions of figures from the bronze skin, the sense of strain...
...found his sign for the dissolution of all matter: infinite energy, seen with detachment. These were his final answer to the Renaissance ideal of man as the measure of all things, and to the comforting delusion that human beings occupy the center of the universe. Michelangelo took a whole fresco to describe the end of the world-one kind of achievement. Leonardo managed to put it, so to speak, on the back of a postcard, which may be one reason why we still want to claim him, despite our ignorance of him and his vast cultural distance from...
...pictorial intelligence. The two versions of his Three Musicians, 1921, show what Picasso could do when his sense of form was fully engaged. The classicizing drift of the early '20s took its most explicit shape in the Three Women at the Spring, 1921. Their dropsical limbs resemble a Pompeian fresco inflated with an air hose, even though the full-size sanguine drawing for the painting, which Picasso kept for himself, has the genuinely classicist air of unforced, continuous modeling...
Michelangelo's next challenge was to produce a fresco in the huge new hall of the Palazzo della Signoria, to match a similar fresco to be done by his great rival, Leonardo da Vinci. Though neither painting was ever finished, the cartoons for them became, as Benvenuto Cellini recorded, "so long as they remained intact ... the school of the world"; Michelangelo's surviving sketch for a bathing soldier demonstrates...