Top Posts
- Michelangelo Smashed His Pietà to Pieces
- Michelangelo's Portrait of a Devil
- Leonardo's Mysterious Landscapes
- The Sistine Chapel Cleaning Job
- Why Michelangelo Disliked Leonardo da Vinci
- Michelangelo vs. Bernini
- Bernini's Ingenious Stairs
- Michelangelo Fell off the Scaffolding in the Sistine
- Giotto's Perfect Circle
- Who's Who in the Last Judgment?
Artwork by100swallows
How I learned to carve marble statues
Blog Stats
- 2,829,040 hits
Recent Comments
Blogroll
Archives
Tag Archives: marble statue
Was Michelangelo Crooked? (Part 3)
Sleeping Cupid by Caravaggio Probably the Cardinal, like the man who gave Michelangelo the head to copy years before, would never have smelled a rat. But one day what Vasari calls an “eyewitness” told him that the Cupid wasn’t old … Continue reading
Posted in art, art history, great artists, Michelangelo, Renaissance, sculpture, stone carving
Tagged antique copy, art dealer, Cardinal San Giorgio, Cupid, fraud, marble statue, Michelangelo, Rome, spy
19 Comments