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Marcello Venusti, Portrait of Michelangelo, after
1535
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Leone Leoni,
Portrait Medal of Michelangelo, 1561
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Psalms 5113 Then will I teach transgressors
thy ways, and sinners shall be converted unto
thee.
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MYTHS ABOUT MICHELANGELO
(largely invented by the artist himself)
1. Michelangelo was largely self-taught and owed
very little to the artistic example of others.
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Domenico Ghirlandaio, Tornabuoni Chapel, Santa
Maria Novella, Florence
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Michelangelo, Studies of Three Nudes, 1531-32
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Michelangelo, Head of Leda, 1529-30
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Bernardo della Volpaia, Studies of Ancient
Monuments, Codex Coner, c. 1510-15
Michelangelo, Studies after the Codex Coner, c.
1515
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Studies of Roman monuments, c. 1515
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Filippo Brunelleschi, Sacrifice of Isaac, 1401
Michelangelo, Sacrifice of Isaac, c. 1535
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MYTHS ABOUT MICHELANGELO

• Michelangelo was largely self-taught and owed
  very little to the artistic example of others.
• Michelangelos ideas came to him fully formed.

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Not even the best of artists has any conception
that a single marble block does not contain
within its excess,
and that is only attained by the hand that obeys
the intellect.
Michelangelo, Sonnet 151, c. 1538-41
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Michelangelo, Sacrifice of Isaac, c. 1535
Michelangelo, Sacrifice of Isaac, c.1535
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Study for a Christ in Limbo, c. 1530--3
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Michelangelo, Studies for a cornice and for nudes
for the Sistine Ceiling, 1508-9
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MYTHS ABOUT MICHELANGELO

• Michelangelo was largely self-taught and owed
  very little to the artistic example of others.
• Michelangelos ideas came to him fully formed.
• Michelangelo painted the Sistine Ceiling laying
  on his back.

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Ive grown a goiter at this work, like the cats
of Lombardy
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MYTHS ABOUT MICHELANGELO

• Michelangelo was largely self-taught and owed
  very little to the artistic example of others.
• Michelangelos ideas came to him fully formed.
• Michelangelo painted the Sistine Ceiling laying
  on his back.
• Michelangelo was a melancholic who did not have
  much of a sense of humor.

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You have a face sweeter than boiled grape juice,
and a snail seems to have passed across it, it
shines so much, and it is more beautiful than a
turnip.
Michelangelo, Sonnet 20, c. 1523
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MYTHS ABOUT MICHELANGELO

• Michelangelo was largely self-taught and owed
  very little to the artistic example of others.
• Michelangelo was the ultimate solitary genius,
  who largely worked alone.
• Michelangelo painted the Sistine Ceiling laying
  on his back.
• Michelangelo was a melancholic who did not have
  much of a sense of humor.
• Michelangelo did not appreciate female beauty.

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Michelangelo, Head
of Leda, c. 1529-30
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Contract for the Vatican Pieta, 1498
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Michelangelo, Head
of Leda, c. 1529-30
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If by a happy heart the face is made beautiful
and by a sad one ugly
it would be good for both to paint her with a
happy heart and a dry face it would make her
beautiful and me not ugly.
Of divine things one speaks on a blue field
Michelangelo, Se dal cor lieto
divien bello il volto, c.1544
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MYTHS ABOUT MICHELANGELO

• Michelangelo was largely self-taught and owed
  very little to the artistic example of others.
• Michelangelo was the ultimate solitary genius,
  who largely worked alone.
• Michelangelo painted the Sistine Ceiling laying
  on his back.
• Michelangelo was a melancholic who did not have
  much of a sense of humor.
• Michelangelo did not appreciate female beauty.
• Michelangelo was the ultimate solitary genius,
  who largely worked alone.

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Michelangelo, Sketches of blocks of marble for
the tomb of Julius II, c. 1516
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Michelangelo, Sketches of blocks of marble for
the tomb of Julius II, c. 1516
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Master Andrea, those men whom I have not called
to work and whom you have not called either, will
not be paid for the days work.
Notice to Master Andrea, 1524
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Plan for San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, 1559-60
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MYTHS ABOUT MICHELANGELO

• Michelangelo was largely self-taught and owed
  very little to the artistic example of others.
• Michelangelo was the ultimate solitary genius,
  who largely worked alone.
• Michelangelo painted the Sistine Ceiling laying
  on his back.
• Michelangelo was a melancholic who did not have
  much of a sense of humor.
• Michelangelo did not appreciate female beauty.
• Michelangelo was the ultimate solitary genius,
  who largely worked alone.
• Michelangelo was a poor man, often underpaid for
  his work.

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Michelangelo, Study of a Gate (Porta Pia?), 1561
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Marcello Venusti, Portrait of Michelangelo, after
1535
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