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Article: UNDER THE INFLUENCE: MICHELANGELO IN FLORENCE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 14, 2002
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FLORENCE - Among the vast frescoes in the Palazzo Pitti is one
depicting Michelangelo Buonarroti presenting Lorenzo de Medici with a
bust carved in the Greco-Roman style. The style is significant. The
agenda of the ruling Medici family was to link Florence with
antiquity, to make it a new Athens. Michelangelo's melding of
Christian and mythological imagery - voluptuous young nude men
lolling around in biblical scenes, the Holy Family bulked up to look
like Greek gods - furthered the Medici cause.
Michelangelo's stamp is all over Florence, even though he left the
city forever in 1534, summoned to Rome by the pope. He'd already
worked in the capital - most famously on the Sistine Chapel - but ...
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