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Carving Attributed To Young Michelangelo Bought By State

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« on: December 12, 2008, 11:55:17 am »

















ANATOMICAL ACCURACY.



They reported that the posture, bones and musculature were ''perfectly in keeping with the body of a 30-year-old man who had died less than 48 hours previously''.

The custodian of Florence's Santo Spirito Church, Niccolo' Bichielli, is known to have allowed Michelangelo to study corpses but many believe he was also allowed to dissect them.

Although dissection was illegal, Michelangelo felt it was the key to understanding the body and portraying it realistically.

According to the Florentine painter and writer Giorgio Vasari, a contemporary of Michelangelo, the artist ''very often used to flay dead bodies in order to discover the secrets of anatomy''.

In addition, studies of the cross found that the 20-year-old Michelangelo ''probably changed his mind halfway through the sculpture''.

Initially, the Christ's head was too bowed for the slant of the body so it was lopped off and reattached with a wedge of wood at an accurate angle.

While Michelangelo is traditionally known for the daunting scale of his pieces, Perugia University's Giancarlo Gentilini explained it was highly feasible he would have created such a small, detailed sculpture during this period.

''The young Michelangelo had close ties to the circle of (Florentine monk Girolamo) Savonarola, which was responsible for the spread of these small crucifixes,'' the professor noted.

''There would have been plenty of opportunities to carve such images and it's very likely that one of his principal customers, the Dominican monks in Bologna or Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medici, would have requested one''.
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