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Article: Michelangelo: One artist, three worlds.(Books)(On Books)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 7, 1999
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When the sculptor, painter, architect and poet - mark the length of that list - Michelangelo Buonarroti was working on his statue "David" that would establish him as the greatest stone carver of his day in Italy or the world, he referred to it casually as the "giant" (gigante). In the same way, he earlier had called his "Cupid," also carved in Florence but the cause of fuss in Rome when it was sent there in the guise of an ancient rather than a modern work, the bambino.
The earlier yet "Battle of the Centaurs," carved in the Medici Gardens when he was little more than a boy, Michelangelo just called the "battle." This habit of taking a generic attitude to the ...