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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...
Four from Hades. The lowest zone, next the floor, is Hades, where lie the sepulchers of Lorenzo and Giuliano de Medici (they were to be flanked by four figures representing the rivers of Hades, which Michelangelo never got around to). Lorenzo's tomb supports the famed outstretched figures of Dawn and Dusk, and atop Giuliano's sprawl Day and Night. Symbolizing earthly life, the stone nudes lie heavy as lead...
Four in Reply. De Tolnay's interpretation of the Medici Chapel is a contribution to art history, but no one will ever know for sure whether it corresponds to what Michelangelo had in mind. The master himself wrote four lines of poetry about the chapel-an answer to the poet who had praised his Night figure. His poem, speaking in the person of Night (and translated by John Addington Symonds...
...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...