Michelangelo [antikvár]

MICHELANGELO Much has been written about the life and work of Michelangelo; his work has inspired constant curiosity about the man himself and about the spiritual problems and convictions expressed in his painting and sculpture. But only a few authors have attempted any detailed analysis of Michelangelói inner vision, which is often deeper and more penetrating than that of other great artists. It was förmed less by contact with his fellow-artists than by Dante's Divine Comdy, the Holy Scriptures, and the doctrines óf Plató; by the tradition, as yet unbroken, of the dying Middle Ages, and by what was then known of Graeco-Roman art and civilization. The pressure of everyday existence has dimmed, for our generation, the memory of mankind's divine origin. Michelangelói work is a visual statement of what the world has lost-the sense of wonder aroused by the mystery of humán existence and humán form. As an artist, Michelangelo is impersonal. His visual work telis us nothing about the man himself or his environment. Personal suffering experienced, and endured; health, friendships, family