DAVID : Sculpture : Michelangelo: Florence : 1501
... “Sweet is my sleep, but more to be mere stone,
so long as ruin and dishonour reign ;
to bear nought, to feel nought, is my great gain ;
then wake me not, speak in an undertone !”
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buonarroti, allusion, art, character, creation,
Form: Ekphrasis
Michelangelo
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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 huma...
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buonarroti, art,
Form: Bio
Michelangelo: Modern English Translations
...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 translation...
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buonarroti, art, beauty, light, love,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Michelangelo Translations
...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 ...
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buonarroti, angel, art, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Epigram
Life Everlasting
...Raphael in the 16th Century of 1505 painted about Yeshûa,
Anglicized is Joshua, who Michelangelo Buonarroti
Remembered in renaissance art, including the Sistine Chapel, and
Carl Heinrich Bloch mad...
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buonarroti, art, bible, christian, easter,
Form: Rhyme
Art - Michelangelo
...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 ...
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buonarroti, art,
Form: Verse
Leonardo and Michelangelo
...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,...
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buonarroti, art,
Form: Epic
Searching For Michelangelo
...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
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buonarroti, art, hope, life, people,
Form: Free verse