Top Posts
- Michelangelo Smashed His Pietà to Pieces
- Michelangelo's Last Paintings
- Michelangelo Takes Criticism
- Michelangelo's Portrait of a Devil
- Leonardo's Mysterious Landscapes
- Who's Who in the Last Judgment?
- Michelangelo Painted Physiques, Not People
- Michelangelo vs. Bernini
- Michelangelo Timeline
- Great Line Drawings
Artwork by100swallows
How I learned to carve marble statues
Blog Stats
- 2,836,611 hits
Recent Comments
Blogroll
Archives
Tag Archives: Nicodemus
Michelangelo’s Angry Little Saint
Michelangelo got his first commission in Bologna: two small statues of saints. He had been studying the human body and found that he liked it above all other subjects. He would have liked to carve a beautiful nude but with … Continue reading
Posted in art, art history, Beauty, Botticelli, David, great artists, Michelangelo, Pietà, Renaissance, Savonarola, sculpture
Tagged art, Beauty, Bologna, Dominican friars, folds in sculpture, human body, Italy, Michelangelo, Nicodemus, Pietà, Renaissance, saint, sculpture, St. Petronius, St. Proculus
4 Comments