Identifier: florenceinpoetry00ryan (find matches)
Title: Florence in poetry, history and art
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ryan, Sara Agnes
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Publisher: Chicago, Mayer and Miller Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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hed not even with wings,but with much of what angels are supposed tobe without—anatomy. But listen—The painters introduced intotheir pictures what they loved best, in earthor sky, as votive offerings to the Queen ofHeaven; and what Signorelli and MichaelAngelo best loved was the human form.— Edmund G. Gardiner. This quotation from one of Michael Angelossonnets may help us rise to the heights of thegrandeur of his sculptural presentation—for hewas a sculptor, first and foremost, by choice,having become a painter only upon compul-sion: Nor does God vouchsafe to revealHimself to me anywhere more than inSome lovely mortal veil, and thatAlone I love, because He is mirrored therein. The sinful painter drapes his goddess warm,Because she still is naked, being dressed;The godlike sculptor will not so deformBeauty, which limbs and flesh enough invest.—Ralph Waldo Emerson. Michael Angelo placed a critic of his nude,a scrupulous cardinal, in Hell, in his fresco ofthe Last Judgment: 176
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The Holy Family Michael Angelo Michael Angelo. But this last judgmentHas been the cause of more vexation to meThan it will be of honor. Ser BiagioMaster of Ceremonies at the Papal Court,A man punctilious and over-nice,Calls it improper, says that those nude forms,Showing their nakedness in such shameless fashion,Are better suited to a common bagnio,Or wayside wine-shop, than a Papal Chapel.To punish him, I painted him as MinosAnd leave him there as Master of CeremoniesIn the Infernal Regions. —Longfellow. Everyone knows the retort the Pope madewhen petitioned by the cardinal to interfere: i If it had been purgatory you were placed in,I should exert my influence to have you re-moved, but out of hell there is no redemp-tion, and the cardinal remains in hell to thisday,—in the picture. A copy of a work which was intended as adecoration for a room in the Palazzo Vecchio—Soldiers Surprised while Bathing in the Arno,was so wonderful a study in anatomy that theMedici had it locked up f

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