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MICHELANGELO
CHRIST TO BE SHOWN
Pakistan
Daily Times carries a short notice that a previously
unseen Christ carving by a 20-year old Michelangelo is
to be exhibited in Florence in May:
"The
tiny statue, 41 by 39 centimetres, is made of limewood
and shows a crucified Jesus with his head slightly slumped,
the cross he was once attached to long missing. "
On
the other hand, "ART experts have dismissed claims a privately owned
wooden statuette of Christ is the work of Michelangelo." Story
at The
Australian.
DAVID
RESTORATION APPROACHES COMPLETION
USA
Today article by Franco Origlia:
"On
May 24, more than a year after the start of a very public
and equally contentious restoration, Michelangelo's
Goliath David will be back in full public view here
in the cradle of the Renaissance. And in September,
the perfect man, as he is often known, will celebrate
his 500th birthday with pomp befitting a pope."
Another
restoration artlicle at the Detroit
News.
"DIGITAL
MICHELANGELO" PROJECT
The Pixar movie studio (They made the Finding Nemo movie) is working on a digital model of the David statue
which will incorporate sights not typically noticed by
the naked eye. Long story (which covers much more than
the David digitization at the Cornell
Sun newspaper):
Levoy
discussed the Digital Michelangelo Project and the Forma
Urbis Romae Project in Alumni Auditorium on April 21.
With an architecture background and a faculty position
in the computer science department at Stanford, Levoy
focuses on the cross of art and computers.
Using
laser scanners, Levoy spent a year in Florence digitizing
Michelangelo's most famous works of art. Levoy said
his motivations for doing the project included challenging
three-dimensional technology and helping art historians.
The
detailed images show marks left by Michelangelo's chisel
that are not visible to the naked eye. The project also
exposed views that are not easy to see, such as the
top of David's head and even his anatomically incorrect
furrowed brow.
"Michelangelo
knew exactly what he could get away with," Levoy
said.
JEAN
STONE DIES
Irving Stone's wife, who helped considerably in the writing
of the Michelangleo biographical novel "The Agony
and the Ecstacy," has died at the age of 93.
"While
working on "The Agony and the Ecstasy," Jean
Stone studied Renaissance culture and the Italian language
at UCLA before she and Irving moved to Rome and Florence,
Italy, for an extended period. "
Obituary
article at the Washington Post here.
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MOSES
CLEANING
"...when Michelangelo's Moses was given a bath, there
was little attention paid.
That
gentle scrubbing was part of a recently completed, five-year
restoration that has brought a fresh shimmer to the sculpture
of Moses and to the half-dozen others in a captivating
tableau known as the Tomb of Pope Julius II inside the
Church of San Pietro in Vincoli in central Rome."
Article at New York Times here.
MICHELANGELO
"LOVE POEMS" IN PRINT
Some
of Michelangelo's love poetry, which he had intended
to publish with a dedication to his muse, Vittoria
Colonna, is to be published as a collection for
the first time.
The
poems, written more than 450 years ago, were never
published together as he had planned, possibly
because of his artistic workload.
The
story at the UK Telegraph is here.
MICHELANGELO
IN THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM
Michelangelo to Vasari: Drawing the Figure in Renaissance
Florence exhibit at the J. Paul Getty Center
The
exhibit consists of drawings from the first Accademia
del Disegno (Academy of Drawing). Established
in 1563 by the famous Renaissance patron Cosimo
I dé Medici, the Academy was headed by
Visari. The students studied Michelangelo along
with other Renaissance artists and the ancient
Greeks.
The
story at the Daily Trojan University newspaper is here.
THE
TOP "TEN"
The Dallas Ft. Worth Star-Telegram has an article on the "top ten sculpture of
all time."
"It
would just be wrong not to include Michelangelo,"
says Timothy Potts, director of the Kimbell Art
Museum in Fort Worth. "He was virtually considered
a god when he died, and he has never fallen out
of favor." In the world of sculpture there
is Michelangelo, then everyone else.
The
story by Gaile Robinson is here.
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DAVID
CLEANING CONTROVERSY
The David statue is getting a high-tech
cleaning by low tech means amid protests.
Not
many people get to look Michelangelo´s David
straight in the eyes. But Cinzia Parnigoni, equipped
with brushes, a microscope and a bottle of distilled
water, does so every day.
´It´s
like lifting a curtain or removing a shadow...´
The
story at Artdaily is here.
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