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...Michelangelo said that the doors might "fittingly stand at the gates of Paradise." All Florentines of the 1450s agreed that their Baptistery's portal sculpted by Lorenzo Ghiberti, was worthy of immortality. The double doors, 16 ft. by 9 ft., cast of bronze and overlaid with gold, held ten panels that told Old Testament tales in such grace ful relief that the metal seemed brushed on like oils...
...MICHELANGELO'S LOST ST. JOHN by Fernanda de' Maffei. 150 pages. Reynal...
...sheepskin over one shoulder and a shell in one hand identify the youth as St. John the Baptist, and while Tozzi patiently cleaned the fragile ancient marble inch by inch, using only castile soap and a toothbrush, he began to think it might be a lost statue that Michelangelo is known to have carved in 1496. The possibility has aroused the cautious enthusiasm of a number of scholars, including Italy's Dr. Fernanda de' Maffei, who now presents the full case for attributing the statue to the sculptor. The argument draws its greatest strength from 169 photos, which...
Picking the right answer* to this question forces a student to recognize and choose among the idealized forms of ancient Greece, the saintly statues of medieval Christianity, the heroic proportions of a Michelangelo, the classical revival, and the textured boldness of contemporary art. No longer do multiple-choice tests offer nonsensical or mildly deceptive wrong answers, or reward fact fanciers with high scores. The best of the new multiple-choice exams test logic, not memory, and conceptual understanding rather than rote learning. And the exam's old reputation for superficiality is fading...
Included in the company of Harvard's Great Men are only three whose contribution was not literary, the artists Bosch and Michelangelo, and the architect (who built Server Hall) Richardson...