Word: michelangelo
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...Tutti Buoni." To great, deafening, farewell cheers, the papal motorcade then whisked to the World's Fair for a brief tour of the Vatican pavilion. There, visibly exhausted, the Pope stared blankly for a while at Michelangelo's Pietd in its unaccustomed setting,* gave his blessing to the modest crowd that braved the night air for a final glimpse of the Pontiff. Then he was hurried back to Kennedy Airport for the TWA flight home-14 hours after his arrival in New York...
...Agony and the Ecstasy opens with a prologue celebrating the magnificence of Michelangelo Buonarroti's most famous sculptures: the David, Moses, the Pieta, Bacchus, the Medici tomb figures. It makes a splendid beginning. And even for the shrewdest caterers to popular taste, an act like Michelangelo's is hard to follow. What does follow in this solemn, princely spectacle -drawn by Director Carol Reed and Scenarist Philip Dunne from Irving Stone's low-to-middlebrow biography-shows every evidence of great effort, but the achievements are spotty...
...film, Agony limits itself to those tumultuous few years when the reluctant Michelangelo (Charlton Heston) was commissioned by the warrior Pope, Julius II (Rex Harrison), to forsake his beloved marble and paint the frescoes for the vaulted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. "It was built by my uncle, Pope Sixtus. That is why it is called the Sistine," says Harrison, surveying a replica meticulously copied by movie artists, and at the same time snappily launching Hollywood's own capsule history of Renaissance art. Unfortunately, the dramatic clash of two iron-willed giants at odds over a ceiling seldom gets...
...Orozco's fame rests on more than subject matter. Though Orozco turned his back on the tradition of Paris, calling it a city "old, ruined, miserable-an immense brothel, a moldering cadaver," he shows by his extraordinary draftsmanship that he owed as much to his spiritual pilgrimage to Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel and El Greco's Toledo as he did to the allegiance of his Indian blood. The sketch (17½ in. by 22 in.) for one of the figures in Orozco's mural in the rotunda of the University at Guadalajara is more than...
...reflecting pool, mingling the domestic grace of a nude in her bath with the powerful, primitive presence of a goddess disturbed from sleep by Leonard Bernstein. Manhattan's mightiest piece of modern sculpture was wrestled into place pretty much the way marbles were muscled into place in Michelangelo's day. Grunting workmen wedged the huge metallic shapes onto rollers, eased them down wood beams, hoisted them upright with block and tackle. Meanwhile, the foreman from West Berlin's Hermann Noack foundry, which cast the behemoth bather, scrubbed down her metal flanks with a hand brush to remove...