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...notes, but later felt compelled to reconstruct their conversation. Writes Malraux in his preface: "With surprise I found out that we know of no dialogue between a great historical figure and a great artist-painter, writer, musician. We have no better knowledge of Julius II's dialogues with Michelangelo than of their loud quarreling. Nor of those between Alexander the Great and the philosophers. We are astonished that Voltaire did not report his with Frederick the Great...
...between his early landscapes, conceived in reverent imitation of Poussin, and a later painting like Macbeth and the Witches (1834). It is a full-blown response to Goethe's Sturm und Drang, with its flailing energies of cloud and sea, its Gothic spikiness, and its perverse adoption of Michelangelo's image of God on the Sistine ceiling for the pointing gesture of the first witch...
...project for the Great Hall in Berlin, with its 1,000-ft.-high dome (16 times the volume of Michelangelo's cupola on St. Peter's) may look to a sophisticated eye like a cross between a white elephant and a cookie cutter. But had it been built, the effect on the 150,000 human ants it was designed to hold would have been stupendous: this would have been not only the largest building in the world but also the most crushing and politically expressive...
Died. Angelo Rizzoli, 80, Italian publisher who left a Milan orphanage at 17 to become a printer, built a publishing empire encompassing ten weekly magazines (20 million readers), became a film producer and sponsored more than 150 films by such leading directors as Michelangelo Antonioni (Red Desert) and Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita); of complications from gall bladder disease; in Milan...
...sculpture? Well, nothing that Michelangelo would recognize as such. But Smith's sculptures lend themselves to both welding and telephoning. Smith's instructions were: "Build me a six-foot cube of quarter-inch hot-rolled steel, with diagonal internal cross bracing." Industrial complied, and over the next years produced a dozen pieces for Smith, following his phone instructions or alternatively, blueprints or models...