Michelangelo: A Renaissance Master in Modern Times
Curiosity and appreciation. That's what brought patrons to a lecture on the Renaissance artist this week at Glencoe Public Library.
At the age of 23, an up-and-coming artist from a small Tuscan village in Italy received a contract, for a sculpture he'd yet to chisel into a masterpiece. “It shall be more beautiful than any work in marble to be seen in Rome today,” the Vatican demanded in 1498, one year before the artist finished the task, “and such that no master of our own time shall be able to produce a better.” Up to the challenge, a young Michelangelo Buonarotti gave his signature. More than 500 years later, the Pietà—Michelangelo's life-sized statue depicting the Virgin Mary, holding in her lap the dead Jesus Christ—sits elevated, behind bulletproof glass, inside St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, Rome. “I think many people would agree, [the Pietà] is …
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Glencoe Public Library
11:10 am on Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Thank you for this thorough report of a most interesting lecture! The art history programs by Dr. Mishur and her husband are a valuable part of Glencoe's cultural life. more ›