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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
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