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Michelangelo&#;s Prisoners or Slaves

The &#;Awakening Slave&#; and &#;Young Slave&#; by Michelangelo

The fame of these four powerful statues &#; named by scholars as “The Awakening Slave”,“The Young Slave”,“The Bearded Slave” and “The Atlas (or Bound)” &#; is due above all to their unfinished state. They are some of the finest examples of Michelangelo&#;s habitual working practice, referred to as “non-finito” (or incomplete), magnificent illustrations of the difficulty of the artist in carving out the figure from the block of marble and emblematic of the struggle of man to free the spirit from matter. These sculptures have been interpreted in many ways. As we see them, in various stages of completion, they evoke the enormous strength of the creative concept as they try to free themselves from the bonds and physical weight of the marble. It is now claimed that the artist deliberately left them incomplete to represent this eternal struggle of human beings to free themselves from their material trappings.

The &#;Bearded Slave&#; and &#;The Atlas&#; by Michelangelo

As you admire the Prisoners from different angles, one can notice Michelangelo’s love and understanding of the human anatomy. The Prisoners’ heads and faces are the least-developed parts, b

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David (Michelangelo)

Renaissance figure in Town, Italy

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Il Gigante: Michelangelo, Florence and the David,

January 3,

My Dad recommended this book, as he has many of the books I've read in my life. This is about the coming of age Michaelangelo as an artist, and the carving of one of his signature works, the David. It's a historical account, and sometimes reads a bit like a Russian novel - at least what I imagine a Russian novel reads like. While half of the book is about the artist, the other half is about the political, religious and military climate in Florence and the rest of the peninsula. These parts kind of bog down a bit with names and factions as any Italian history would, I suppose. But the bits about Michaelangelo and the descriptions of his work are inspiring. Makes me want to return to Italy and have another look at his works.

Now finished with the book, I have to confess to skimming through the final chapter, which seemed a bit of a non-sequitur for me. The book contains lots of insight into the works of art discussed throughout. But there was too much historical context to digest, too much of it was tangential to or not related at all to Michaelangelo and his work.