Word: michelangelos
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...surface in his own figures from the late '20s on. Cezanne's ponderous and sculptural Bathers spoke to his own obsessions with the reclining figure. Archaic sculpture of every kind, especially Mayan and Aegean, fortified his lifelong interest in totems and sentinel figures; and then there were Donatello and Michelangelo, the painted figures of Masaccio and, perhaps most challenging to him in his maturity, the sculptures of Giovanni Pisano in Siena and Pisa, not far from the marble quarries at Forte dei Marmi, where he took to working during the summers...
Even the villainous Alexander VI (1492-1503), who won election by bribery, reputedly hired assassins and fathered the even more villainous Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, gets good marks as an administrator and patron of the arts. It was he who persuaded Michelangelo to undertake the grand rebuilding of St. Peter...
...refused to take it out, though he offered to counterface it with some portraits of Lincoln and other moral equivalents. The result of this Mexican standoff was that the Rockefellers effaced the mural, while the Communist Party denounced Rivera for "opportunism." This finished Rivera's career as the conflicted Michelangelo of American capitalism, and he went back to Mexico to become the wholehearted Tintoretto of the peons...
...glaringly omitted, after being nominated three times in the past. Why? Some of Hollywood's glittersnipes speculate that it is sheer jealousy over his relentless commercial successes. Said veteran Hollywood Producer Daniel Melnick: "It's as if the nominators expressed their awe for the Sistine Chapel while snubbing Michelangelo...
...pleasure than he once did. Even with a genuine work, when it is stripped of its authorship, its identity is damaged, the richness of its context weakened. Could even the Sistine Chapel remain the same in our eyes if we were suddenly informed that there had never been a Michelangelo clinging to the ceiling to paint it? That it was actually the work of some Renaissance craftsman whose name and circumstances were unfortunately unknown...