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...When Michelangelo heard that Pope Paul IV wanted one of his paintings changed, the master snapped: "Let him mend the world; I'll mend my paintings." As if heedful of Michelangelo's sound advice, the U.S. Government has mostly steered clear of trying to mend America's painting. Two years ago Harry Truman asked the National Commission of Fine Arts (whose usual job is to advise on statues and fountains) to see what the Government might do in the way of art patronage. After taking four volumes of testimony from federal bureaucrats, museum people and "cultural attaches...
Zanuck may argue, in his own defense, that great artists have frequently defied the rule; after all, Michelangelo was said to favor a figure "pyramidal, serpentine, and multiplied by one, two, and three," which is at least as peculiar as 2.66 to 1. Yet only by a master stroke of organization was Leonardo da Vinci able, in The Annunciation, to connect in one esthetic whole a frame that is only slightly more extreme than Zanuck's. But Zanuck of course has a bigger budget. One moviemaker summed up the problem this way: "Marilyn Monroe will have to lie down...
...Michelangelo, by Giovanni Papini. A new biography of the great Florentine; vigorous, often argumentative, almost always absorbing (TIME...
...Michelangelo, by Giovanni Papini. A new biography of the great Florentine; vigorous, often argumentative, almost always absorbing (TIME...
...Michelangelo, by Giovanni Papini. A new biography of the great Florentine; vigorous, often argumentative, almost always absorbing (TIME...