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...A squadron of press followed him as he admired the church’s renaissance paintings – the archangel Gabriel, the dramatic Visione di San Tommaso d’Aquino....
...To see a quarter-century of his ever-evolving art, then walk a few minutes to Titian in the Frari and Tintoretto in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, is a rare joy....
...“The Crucifixion of St Peter” on the Sistine ceiling, is one of only two surviving large cartoons by Michelangelo....
...But the Milan of the film was some way from the one Visconti sprang from, the director being an aristocrat who grew up in the splendid Palazzo Visconti di Modrone....
...Michelangelo Gerardi, 37, a former carabiniere now confined to a wheelchair, waited for hours in the heat for a glimpse of the coffin....
...Michelangelo Pistoletto, who turns 90 this year, forged a career in the 1960s with his famous mirror paintings series, which draw the observer into the artwork itself....
...Carlo Falciani, a professor at the Accademia di Belle Arte in Florence, has proposed that it may be an early self-portrait, the Latin verse the sitter has penned perhaps suggesting a contemporary paragone...
...“I wanted to follow in the path of Caravaggio and Michelangelo, to create something for eternity,” he says....
...It didn’t stop 16-year-old Lisa from meeting Neno Corti di Santo Stefano Belbo, the youngest son of an aristocratic Italian family, whose passion for collecting ceramics and antiquities saw him travel on...
...Palazzo Vecchio, the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, the Museo degli Innocenti and the Museo di Casa Buonarroti....
...It’s about a 30-minute drive from Catania airport and serves the best raw fish I’ve ever had, especially the carpaccio di gamberi rossi....
...Keep walking until you reach Piazza di Pietra....
...I love the carbonara at Il Marchese, on Via di Ripetta....
...Works by Carpaccio, Dürer, Piero di Cosimo, Vasari and others feature, along with brief but thoughtful essayettes....
...are unmistakably those of Michelangelo himself....
...Michelangelo despised Flemish art. It was, he said, fit for monks, nuns and “certain noblemen who have no sense of true harmony”. Oh, and women in general — especially the very old and the very young....
...We in the Basilica di Santa Croce!”...
...Small works packed a punch, notably two 15th-century altarpiece panels by the Sienese artist Giovanni di Paolo....
...An earlier League cultural minister sought to move Italians to cough up money for art by printing posters showing Michelangelo’s David with his arms cut off — suggesting the grim future that awaited such...
...His exquisite colour palette – with its blush-rose pinks, turquoises and carmines – might have been mixed by Michelangelo....
...And the Roman Catholic Church continued this bravura corporate identity: great architecture, great art directors (including Michelangelo), terrific costumes and an articulate priesthood....
...At the YSP, his first calling card is “Vene di pietra tra i rami” (“Vein of stone among the branches”, 2015)....
...Vasari explained Pontormo as “an eccentric and solitary creature”, yet this melancholy artist was alert to many influences: his Christ and Mary echo Michelangelo’s “Pietà” (1498-99), and the impact of Michelangelo...
...Standing today in warm winter sun on the majestic Piazza del Campidoglio, bordered by three palazzi each with a façade designed by Michelangelo, you can understand why this spot in particular held the German...
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Michelangelo. I particularly love his later drawings because you can see the artist’s thinking process....
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