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...night next to the museum's west wing. The fireball and blast killed five people, destroyed museum archives and an important library near the Uffizi, weakened some of its ancient structure, and destroyed or damaged a number of works of art. Luckily, none of them were Botticellis, Michelangelos, Leonardos or Titians. Paintings by 17th century followers of Caravaggio (two by Bartolommeo Manfredi and one by the Dutch artist Gerrit van Honthorst) were totally destroyed, and several others, including an important work by the Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo, were shredded by flying glass. No doubt the terrorists, whoever they were...
...goddess Venus notes: "I think if Michelangelo were straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white with a roller...
...AUTHOR: MICHELANGELO SIGNORILE...
Nonetheless, Shilts' opus will be around much longer than Michelangelo Signorile's Queer in America. The deterioration begins in the first lines of the introduction. "There exists in America what appears to be a brilliantly orchestrated, massive conspiracy to keep all homosexuals locked in the closet." Four lines later, Signorile's great conspiracy is "a relatively unconscious one, ingrained as it is in our culture...
...turned out, it mattered for formal reasons. Iron is quintessentially structure, not mass. Inside every figure produced by the academies had been a leaner, more abstract presence -- the wire armature on which the clay or plaster was built, hidden by the later work of representation. Just as Michelangelo had imagined the figure latent in the raw marble block, hidden by the superfluities of stone, so it fell to Picasso, Gonzalez and others to imagine a second structure within the conventionally sculpted figure: a kind of iron essence, expressed in line and plane rather than continuous surface, in openness rather than...