Best Michelangelo Poems

I told him we were broken, the way
horses can be, and he galloped through 
the sentence like a cowboy, less a
heart.  I loosed the biggest word I could 
think of – so enormous I felt everything
in me squeeze back as it passed by
and nearly...

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Michelangelo
Paints the vault of Sistina.
His old hands are firm.

Michelangelo
Paints the vault of Sistina.
Tiring position.

Michelangelo
Paints the vault of Sistina.
Youthful fervency.

Michelangelo
Paints the vault of Sistina.
No matter his age.

Michelangelo
Paints the vault of Sistina.
Plenty of colors.

Michelangelo
Paints the vault of Sistina.
Magic miracle.

Michelangelo
Paints the vault of Sistina.
Will last forever.

Michelangelo
Paints the vault...

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Love and Grief
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The love of mother and son depicted in a marble statue,
the Pieta, said to be the most beautiful in Rome to this day;
no corpse could be more life-like-  no mother more sad,
     it resides in St. Peter's Chapel-...

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The Deposition by Michelangelo


He could not stop once he began the work
Of shaping a most painful scene in stone
For the whole world to see and remember
Hoping they will feel what he felt so strong
Jesus, His life offered as sacrifice
Sorrow filled eyes of those who had...

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Two renaissance artists . . .

Leonardo Da Vinci created enduring works during his lifetime,
too many to list but perhaps the most well known is the Mona Lisa.
Born April 15, 1452 and died May 2, 1519 at only 67 years old.

Considered the greatest painter of all...

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MICHELANGELO: Modern English Translations

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is considered by many experts to be the greatest artist and sculptor of all time. These are modern English translations of his poems and epigrams by Michael R. Burch.



SONNET: RAVISHED
by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Ravished, by...

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Michelangelo and Leonardo both painted a fresco.
Said Leo, “I’ll paint it after I drink my expresso”.
The result was “The Battle of Anghiari”,
And the Italians ooh’d and they ahh’d like it was a Ferrari.
But it faded from view in a decade or two,
So today no one...

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My profound admiration for Michelangelo goes
beyond the Renaissance genius that he was;
humanness on humble faces out of norm, 
seeking their Creator with a human form!


I envision him on his back painting nudity  
on the high ceiling of the Sistine Chapel as hot sweat
dripped from...

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Genesis 1:26-27
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures...

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It took Michelangelo
To find where David was hidden
In a chunk of rock,
To chip and scrape away
All that was not the shepherd king.

It took Michelangelo
To find the finger of God
By placing on
The sameness of a ceiling
Those blends of particulars
That made Adam.

It took Michelangelo
To find a mother...

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Leonardo and Michelangelo

GRADE 3 – ART CLASS

TEACHER! TEACHER!  LEONARDO TOLD ME I SHOULD GO PAINT A CEILING.


6/18/2016...

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MICHELANGELO -an art phrasis

High renaissance of a pieta piece,
marbled sculpture of our Lord.
Santa Sopra,tactile touched.Frescos,
paint bright, fresh as yesterday.
Stupendous works of art,
suspended above,in space.
Multifaceted mastercraftsman
gifted by God's grace.

Phrasis of Michelangelo

You may hear me recite my phrasis on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro....

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News alert: Graffiti rampant on Piazzo del Poplo 1500,
“Da Vinci smokes pot to get high”
“Michelangelo’s a young upstart teen, can’t paint for crap”,
Was a graffiti reply.




For the Da Vinci vs Michelangelo contest...

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MICHELANGELO TRANSLATIONS

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet. He and his fellow Florentine, Leonardo da Vinci, were rivals for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man. Michelangelo is considered by many to be the greatest artist of all...

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Michelangelo Buonarroti
          at thirteen
pen to paper drawings
        showed great talent
and as an apprentice he acquired
    basic fresco skills

  he studied space
and the human body anatomy
...

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