Medievalists.net » Michelangelo http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Laser scanning and 3D Printing used to recreate Michelangelo’s bronzes http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/07/laser-scanning-and-3d-printing-used-to-recreate-michelangelos-bronzes/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/07/laser-scanning-and-3d-printing-used-to-recreate-michelangelos-bronzes/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2015 16:59:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=59470 A team of researchers have been working together to try to understand how the two mysterious Renaissance bronzes were made and why they look the way they do by making accurate replicas of the originals.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/07/laser-scanning-and-3d-printing-used-to-recreate-michelangelos-bronzes/feed/ 0 The drawings that Michelangelo did not want you to see http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/21/drawings-michelangelo-want-see/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/21/drawings-michelangelo-want-see/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2014 19:20:25 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53498 There are about 600 drawings by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo that have survived to the present day - many of them stunningly beautiful - but he would probably have been 'absolutely horrified' that the general public can now see them.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/21/drawings-michelangelo-want-see/feed/ 0 Michelangelo, Copernicus and the Sistine Chapel http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/08/michelangelo-copernicus-sistine-chapel/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/08/michelangelo-copernicus-sistine-chapel/#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2014 16:14:53 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51726 A detailed examination of the themes, motifs and secrets held with Michelagelo's masterpiece.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/08/michelangelo-copernicus-sistine-chapel/feed/ 0 The Council of Trent (1545–63) and Michelangelo’s Last Judgment (1541) http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/20/the-council-of-trent-1545-63-and-michelangelos-last-judgment-1541/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/20/the-council-of-trent-1545-63-and-michelangelos-last-judgment-1541/#comments Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:13:50 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45051 Michelangelo’s Last Judgment is one of the world’s most famous paintings, located in one of the world’s most famous rooms, the Sistine Chapel.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/20/the-council-of-trent-1545-63-and-michelangelos-last-judgment-1541/feed/ 0 Does Michelangelo’s poetic veil shroud a secret Luther? http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/28/does-michelangelos-poetic-veil-shroud-a-secret-luther/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/28/does-michelangelos-poetic-veil-shroud-a-secret-luther/#comments Tue, 28 Aug 2012 06:58:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35189 The thesis poses a question derived from an unlikely nexus of two prominent figures of the Renaissance and the Reformation: the artist whose creative abilities ostensibly dominate the Vatican and religious art, juxtaposed with the rebel who splintered the dominance of Roman Catholicism.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/28/does-michelangelos-poetic-veil-shroud-a-secret-luther/feed/ 0 Sofonisba Anguissola: Marvel of Nature http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/06/25050/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/06/25050/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:20:32 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=25050 Sofonisba Anguissola: Marvel of Nature Fulmer, Betsy Academic Forum, No.23 (2005-6) Abstract Born in Italy during the Renaissance, Sofonisba Anguissola was the first internationally recognized female artist. This paper examines the events that advanced her career and the cultural situation in which she found herself competing as an artist. Uniquely, during the Italian Renaissance arose […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/06/25050/feed/ 0 ‘… con uno inbasamento et ornamento alto’: The Rhetoric of the Pedestal c.1430 – 1550 http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/10/%e2%80%98%e2%80%a6-con-uno-inbasamento-et-ornamento-alto%e2%80%99-the-rhetoric-of-the-pedestal-c-1430-1550/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/10/%e2%80%98%e2%80%a6-con-uno-inbasamento-et-ornamento-alto%e2%80%99-the-rhetoric-of-the-pedestal-c-1430-1550/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:19:51 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=24037 ‘… con uno inbasamento et ornamento alto’: The Rhetoric of the Pedestal c.1430 – 1550 By Alison Wright Art History, Volume 34, Issue 1 (2011) Introduction:  When, in 1504, the Florentine painter Cosimo Rosselli gave his opinion on the best situation for Michelangelo’s colossal David, he suggested it be placed by the cathedral and raised […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/10/%e2%80%98%e2%80%a6-con-uno-inbasamento-et-ornamento-alto%e2%80%99-the-rhetoric-of-the-pedestal-c-1430-1550/feed/ 0 Michelangelo’s Moses of the Julius Tomb: The Definitive Michelangelo Sculpture http://www.medievalists.net/2011/05/29/michelangelo%e2%80%99s-moses-of-the-julius-tomb-the-definitive-michelangelo-sculpture/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/05/29/michelangelo%e2%80%99s-moses-of-the-julius-tomb-the-definitive-michelangelo-sculpture/#comments Sun, 29 May 2011 19:20:18 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=21244 Michelangelo’s Moses of the Julius Tomb is one of the most powerful works from one of the most important artists of all time. Michelangelo is perhaps best known for the David.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/05/29/michelangelo%e2%80%99s-moses-of-the-julius-tomb-the-definitive-michelangelo-sculpture/feed/ 0 Metaphorical painting: Michelangelo, Dante, and the Last Judgment http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/02/metaphorical-painting-michelangelo-dante-and-the-last-judgment/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/02/metaphorical-painting-michelangelo-dante-and-the-last-judgment/#comments Mon, 03 Jan 2011 05:45:18 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=14746 Metaphorical painting: Michelangelo, Dante, and the Last Judgment Barnes, Bernadine The Art Bulletin; Mar (1995)77, 1 Abstract In the lower right corner of the Last Judgement, Michelangelo painted an unmistakeable quotation from Dante’s Inferno (figs. 1, 2). The figures of Charon and Minos were easily recognized by sixteenth-century viewers, and to the present day no […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/02/metaphorical-painting-michelangelo-dante-and-the-last-judgment/feed/ 0 History, origins, recovery: Michelangelo and the politics of art http://www.medievalists.net/2010/09/06/history-origins-recovery-michelangelo-and-the-politics-of-art/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/09/06/history-origins-recovery-michelangelo-and-the-politics-of-art/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:44:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=10007 When Michelangelo returned to Florence from Rome in the early spring of 1501, he returned to a city that had not yet recovered from a profound artistic crisis.

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