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...letter of 1535 in which Pope Paul III hires "our beloved son, Michelangelo" as architect, sculptor and painter for the unfinished church of St. Peter's. As part payment, the Pope grants the young painter all the tolls from a Po River ferry crossing near Piacenza for life...
...mood, moguls turned frantic, searching their silk purses for overpriced sows' ears. Penny pinching was back in style, and the omnipotent auteur was on the ropes. U.A. Executive Steven Bach, who once called Cimino "the Michelangelo of film," now pointed out that his director had been "behind five days in shooting- in six days." Universal's Ned Tanen noted that The Deer Hunter, which his studio coproduced, had gone 50% over budget. Sherry Lansing of 20th Century-Fox assured the company's owner-to-be, Marvin Davis, that "there are no Heaven 's Gates here." When...
...were the three greatest draftsmen in the history of Western art? There would be room for argument at the lower end of the ranking (Dürer? Raphael? Ingres?). But of the first two there can be little doubt. One was Michelangelo; the other was Leonardo da Vinci. The bastard son of a Florentine notary, Leonardo was born in 1452 and died in 1519. Almost from the moment that he emerged from Verrocchio's workshop in the 1470s and began his long, peripatetic and disappointed life among the courts of Rome, Milan, France and his home town, Florence...
...destroying clouds, Leonardo found his sign for the dissolution of all matter: infinite energy, seen with detachment. These were his final answer to the Renaissance ideal of man as the measure of all things, and to the comforting delusion that human beings occupy the center of the universe. Michelangelo took a whole fresco to describe the end of the world-one kind of achievement. Leonardo managed to put it, so to speak, on the back of a postcard, which may be one reason why we still want to claim him, despite our ignorance of him and his vast cultural distance...
...Florence, the Medicis left enough chapels, monuments and cathedrals to occupy and student of architecture for many weeks. Every day you can drive past Michelangelo's David on your way into the central square. The Basilica of Saint Lorenzo, so unreal in its beauty, stands nearby like a giant gingerbread house...