Raphael's School of Athens portrait of Michelangelo
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Albrecht Durer Melencholia
The portrait can be seen as acknowledgement of Michelangelo's greatness, or his failure to complete projects such as the Battle of Cascina and the Saint Matthew
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Michelangelo in Disguise
Some of you may have already known this, but it came as a surprise to me as I was reading Renaissance Rivals. Raphael painted the portrait of Michelangelo into the School of Athens. "He is Michelangelo in Michelangelesque guise, represented as a melancholy genius, an apt description of the man employing an imagery familiar to contemporaries, intellectually and psychologically isolated though surrounded by a society of great men" (Goffen pg122). It is considered that Raphael even referenced the engraving Melencholio by Albrecht Durer and Michelangelo's prophet Jeremiah.
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The portrait can be seen as acknowledgement of Michelangelo's greatness, or his failure to complete projects such as the Battle of Cascina and the Saint Matthew
The portrait can be seen as acknowledgement of Michelangelo's greatness, or his failure to complete projects such as the Battle of Cascina and the Saint Matthew
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