Word: michelangelo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This evening at 8 o'clock, Mr. Charles Theodore Carruth will speak at the Fogg Art Museum on "Michelangelo Buonarroti; the Master and his Works...
Stefan Zweig has accomplished in his biography of his friend, Romain Rolland, what Romain Holland himself had in mind when he wrote his "heroic biographies" of "Beethoven", "Michelangelo", and "Tolstoi". Rolland, in these books, wanted to write the lives of the heroes of history as he knew them. "True greatness was for him to be found only in solitude, in the struggle waged by the individual against the unseen." He aimed at bringing solace to others by showing, in the lives of these men, that their titanic and lonely struggles brought them at last to the places they so well...
...remember, in those halcyon days of the war, Mr. Chesterton had delightful fun with one of his imaginary German professors who had tried to prove that Michelangelo was a German, because Michelangelo had black hair, and some Germans, too, have black hair. I am afraid that in his preoccupation with the German professor, Mr. Chesterton has acquired much of the latter's logic. If Mr. Chesterton's jests could be reduced to a reasoned argument, I suppose it would run like this: No man of Jewish descent can become an Englishman, for some Jews take Mr. Chesterton seriously...
...artist Blake was equally radical. He invented amazing color-schemes, distorted anatomies; in short, sacrificed all realism to the needs of the design. He contained the devout purity of Fra Angelico, the supernatural neurosis of El Gregco, and something resembling Botticelli's line and Michelangelo's force...