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VISITORS to the Reception Center of the TIME and LIFE Building these next few weeks may feast their eyes on a majestic sight: a full-color photographic reproduction (one-third scale) of Michelangelo's great frescoes in the Sistine Chapel at Rome. The Sistine ceiling depicts the Creation, the Fall of Man and the Flood; an altar wall shows the Last Judgment...
...prose with a glandular condition, but it often pays better than literature, as Author Irving Stone found out with such bestsellers as Lust for Life (Vincent Van Gogh), The President's Lady (Rachel Jackson) and Love Is Eternal (Mary Todd Lincoln). In the present fictionalized life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Author Stone has transcended himself; The Agony and the Ecstasy raises blurbese to blurbissimo...
...shoulder while his hand and mind work at top speed. Last week Manhattan got a chance to study the techniques of the masters courtesy of the Italian government, which, to celebrate its centennial of unification, is sponsoring a collection of 154 master drawings by Da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and 82 other Italians. The drawings have already attracted throngs in Washington, Boston and Chicago, and are on final display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art before returning to Italy...
...three drawings by Michelangelo, the sculptor struggles to discover the proper angle for a tensely muscular leg, later carved in marble for the famous figure Night in the Medici Chapel of San Lorenzo in Florence. Titian is represented by a study of legs done in thick black chalk a decade before the resulting painting, Martyrdom of St. Lorenzo, was hung in the church of the Jesuits in Venice. On a sheet of paper measuring 5¼ in. by 5¾ in., Leonardo da Vinci crammed almost two dozen men and half a dozen horses in two detailed, swirling battle scenes...
...Herbert Kubly. This book is written con amore. No visible distance separates Author Kubly (American in Italy) from the Italian spirit. Kubly captures the native moods, sensuous, skeptical, volcanic, and the native pieties-toward nature, the family, and Il Papa. Italy is poor, except that it has been left Michelangelo, Raphael and Dante. The Italian's lot is sad, yet he sings in his chains. Italy is a relic of history, says Kubly, yet no people lives more fully and joyfully in the present moment. Most striking photograph: Venice's cemetery isle of San Michele, with hundreds...