Word: medici
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poet, an obscure contemporary of Michelangelo's, was trying to describe one of the seven figures which the sculptor had carved for the Medici Chapel in Florence's Church of San Lorenzo. Charles de Tolnay, a Michelangelo scholar and member of Princeton's highbrow Institute for Advanced Study, has done much better. In a newly published book of bold erudition (The Medici Chapel; Princeton University Press, $20) De Tolnay interprets the entire chapel in the light of a single theme. Deep inside De Tolnay's brier patch of facts and shrewd guesses lies new evidence that...
...when he was 45. He had finished the Sistine Ceiling, and the 20 months spent painting on his back had half blinded him (for some time he could read letters only by holding them over his head). The Sistine Ceiling had been a hymn to creation; the Medici Chapel, De Tolnay believes, was to be a more somber hymn to immortality. Michelangelo failed to finish it. After 14 years of constantly interrupted work, the master left Florence to paint the Last Judgment for Pope Paul III in Rome, and never got home again...
...Carnival Song," a setting for men's voices and brass of a poem by Lorenzo de' Medici, will be sung by the Glee Club under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth '24. Written in 1988, the work has been recorded by the Club and performed widely...
There is the Florence of Leo X, the Medici pope, who ruled in hedonist splendor, true to his dictum: "Let us enjoy the Papacy, now that God has given it to us." That Florence is preserved in the proud perfection of the city's stones...
...have any friends who are Lampoon editors, you'll recognize them in the photographs which spot the magazine. They're as funny as Lampoon editors can be, in their quaint alcoholic attitudes. The drawings of Maria de Medici and the parody of Grant Wood's "American Gothic" are excellent. The advertisements are exciting, and for twenty-five cents, this Lampoon parody is a worthwhile souvenir of the game...