Word: michelangelo
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...most ambitious and controversial art-restoration project of the 20th century, the cleaning of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, is in its eighth year, with five years still to go. All the wall lunettes and three of the nine Old Testament scenes on the ceiling are finished, freed of 478 years of accumulated grime, crude repaints and successive coats of darkened glue size applied as a varnish by 17th and 18th century restorers. A quite different Michelangelo, one whose intensity and beauty of color matches his long-acknowledged grandeur as draftsman and iconographer, emerges. The vault...
There is no gain without a sense of loss, however temporary. An equation between the ceiling's darkness and the profundity of Michelangelo's mind is old and runs very deep. To find such a father figure decking himself, as it were, in azure, malachite green, rose, yellow, lavender and pink, in the silky and atmospheric sheen of colori cangianti, or shifting colors, is disorienting; one is still apt to think of color as a feminine rather than a patriarchal attribute. One may recoil, feeling that it is somehow better to embrace the frescoes we know than the ones Michelangelo...
...process will be used on less popular movies that "would be totally changed and destroyed by color. It would be insane to do this just to get a bigger audience." Says Director Jeremy Paul Kagan: "It's as if somebody put blue eyes on David and said, 'Wouldn't Michelangelo love...
...early film versions, Ian Fleming's James Bond became Sean Connery. Then Bond turned into Roger Moore. Convinced that Bond was Connery, some moviegoers dismissed Moore as an impostor. Charlton Heston, conversely, performed a miracle of dramatic consolidation in the 1950s and '60s. He became Moses, Ben-Hur, Michelangelo, Andrew Jackson and John the Baptist: everyone this side of God. Heston possessed such brooding gravitas that he could plausibly pass for an abstraction, the decalogue with a strong chin...
Reagan may be thinner, but it would take a practiced medical eye to judge the few pounds he has dropped during his illness. The news stories suggested a loss of color from his face, but here again the evaluation of fading hues would require the eye of a Michelangelo. He is still ruddy, but perhaps not as ruddy as he would have been had he gone to his ranch in California to chop wood. Hoarseness from the tube in his throat? He certainly sounded hoarse when he appeared on TV with the President of China, but now, at ease...