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Sistine Chapel ceiling - Wikipedia
Art requires access to the imagination, a notoriously difficult place to visit. The imagination fuels an idea. The artist acts urgently, often impulsively, on that idea but brings conscious rigor to the evaluation of what the imagination has spewed. Ultimately, experience, intellect, insight, and drive enable them to shape the work and then to edit
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Imagine a job that lets you get up close and personal with one of the world’s most famous statues.
It’s one perk of being the in-house restorer of the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, Italy, where Eleonora Pucci’s task is to regularly dust Michelangelo’s David, which she described recently as exhilarating, if... See more
instagram.comOne need only look at Picasso’s notebooks to recognize the staggering amount of work that went into “Les Demoiselles.” He carried out 809 preliminary studies and filled 16 different sketchbooks with his attempts to represent the women. It was with this painting that he introduced the world to what would become known as cubism.8
As a watchman I can use this picture in something like the way it was intended to be used, and for that I am grateful. An artist in the fourteenth century wouldn’t have dreamed that one day there would be art connoisseurs and textbooks dedicated to something called art history. In Bernardo Daddi’s mind the painting must have been a kind of machine
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🇮🇹 HOW MICHELANGELO TURNED A CEILING INTO THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE
At just 33, Michelangelo began painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling in 1508, a grueling four-year project that pushed his limits as an artist better known for sculpting.
Completed in 1512, the frescoes became one of the... See more
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