From what do the
terribilità
and the grace of Michelangelo
proceed
?
Answer in two chapters.
First at the Louvre, where an exhibition on High Renaissance sculpture in Italy shows where Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) emerged.
Then in the cinema where, in
Michelangelo (Il Peccato)
(sin), Andreï Konchalovsky captures the Florentine at the height of glory.
Either from the 1510s, when having become master, equal and rival of Leonardo, Bramante and Raphaël - the
David
, the
Vatican
Pietà
and the Sistine frescoes are finished - the great families, Roman and Florentine, tear themselves away. to the point of quartering.
At the Louvre, the young archer that we discover at the end of a sumptuous course installed next to the two famous
Slaves
-
Cupid,
long unauthenticated, marble which until 2009 adorned with general indifference the hall of cultural services of the French Embassy in New York - seems grace embodied.
All the codes of this sweet language are in any case there, already
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