Honoring Michelangelo Contemplating His Sistine Chapel His Moses His David and Vitorria Colonna
by Richard W Linford
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Title
Honoring Michelangelo Contemplating His Sistine Chapel His Moses His David and Vitorria Colonna
Artist
Richard W Linford
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
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Honoring Michelangelo Contemplating his Sistine Chapel, Moses, David,, and Vitoria Colonna, Acrylic on canvas
Michelangelo
1. my mother introduced me to this man
2. this michel angelo
3. this
4. sculptor
5. artist
6. poet
7. of Pieta
8. David
9. Moses
10. Sistine Chapel
11. Last Judgment
12. he died at eighty eight
13. this man of men
14. his life well spent
15. this poet
16. made of chiseled stone
17. celestial marble dust
18. he ate for breakfast and for lunch
19. he had a rival in da vinci it is true
20. and most who think do say
21. these two are greatest of all time
22. with rembrandt
23. on the list of course
24. prodigious
25. correspondence
26. writings
27. sketches
28. sculptures
29. paintings
30. bas reliefs
31. or fully formed
32. pieta david moses sculptures
33. for all time
34. so well attested
35. in or out his prime
36. his legacy
37. his works
38. from sixteenth century on
39. he died in rome
40. his longer name
41. di lo dovico buonarroti simoni
42. so say the tomes
43. italion sculptor
44. painter
45. architect
46. and
47. poet
48. too
49. this heart
50. and soul
51. of renaissance
52. just think of this
53. he was not even thirty years of age
54. when sculpted david and pieta
55. think of this
56. his complex ceiling paintings
57. in the sistine chapel
58. there in rome st peter’s
59. craned my neck to look
60. took four quick years to paint
61. he was a saint
62. a man of God
63. when counted by his works
64. ‘tis sure God said in heaven long ago
65. before this world was formed
66. when you and I were there
67. I care to send the very best
68. this child
69. with art and sculpture talent genius
70. coursing thru his veins
71. this architect st peter’s took control
72. basilica designed and
73. carried out this major lasting work
74. work ethic reigns supreme
75. was called by more than one
76. divine one ill divino terribilita
77. sense of awe they felt
78. when viewing his great works
79. I feel the same do you
80. if honest with yourself and me
81. prodigious works
82. sheer quantity
83. sheer quality
84. impassioned works
85. such driven works
86. so much to paint
87. so much to sculpt
88. so little time
89. and so to work
90. was born in fourteen seventy five
91. caprese Tuscany was raised
92. in florence mother died
93. when he was only six
94. he lived with nanny
95. and her husband who cut stones
96. in settgnano
97. learned to handle chisel hammer
98. knew the marble quarries well
99. while still a boy
100. he copied paintings from the churches
101. not a few
102. was not much into grammar school
103. were you
104. he saw the Brunelleschi work
105. ghiberti’s sculptured doors of bronze
106. the baptistry the gates of paradise
107. he saw the donatello’s
108. saw verrocchio’s
109. dibanco’s giotto’s
110. just to name a few
111. he studied
112. copied
113. drawings
114. frescos
115. figures
116. portraiture
117. perspective
118. at
119. thirteen
120. apprenticed
121. to
122. Ghirlandaio
123. sent to work
124. for medIcis
125. he sculpted his reliefs
126. madonna of the steps
127. and
128. battle of centaurs
129. his nose was broken
130. struck by torrigiano who was he
131. and so today
132. we see it bent
133. so out of joint
134. as genius he no doubt was wont to be
135. his crucifix
136. dissecting bodies
137. in the night
138. Leonardo-like
139. he learned anatomy
140. perfected his great sculpting skills
141. he sculpted Hercules
142. facing
143. firebrand
144. hell fire and damnation
145. dominican priest
146. savonarola
147. visionary
148. prophet man
149. obsessed
150. against all pleasure and all wickedness
151. against all jokes frivolity
152. against all worldly poetry
153. against the grog inns and the sex
154. against the gambling and fine clothes
155. against the jewelry too
156. against the carnivals festivals
157. against indecent books and luxury
158. against nude paintings and sculptures
159. against material humanism
160. against all forms of italian renaissance
161. michelangelo fled for his life to venice
162. savanarola hanged and strangled (or vice versa)
163. burned at the stake for heresy in 1498
164. michelangelo traveled back to florence
165. sculpting sleeping cupid in the night
166. sculpting john the Baptist
167. traveling on to rome
168. only twenty one
169. he sculpted roman wine god bacchus
170. then was asked to carve pieta
171. virgin mary grieving over
172. JESUS CHRIST THE HOLY SON OF GOD MESSIAH
173. THE KING of Kings WHO SOON WILL COME
174. Keep in mind
175. He finished sculpting his great work the pieta
176. at twenty four
177. what miracle is that? Is there another twenty four year old like that?
178. a perfect full size copy
179. sits in a glass case in salt lake city
180. in the methodist church
181. on thirty third south
182. the public drives on by
183. oblivious to this wondrous work
184. of MICHELANGELO
185. in utah of all places
186. think of it
187. his pieta in utah of all places
188. his david perfect body abs of steel
189. to steal a true cliche
190. those serious perfect biceps
191. holding fast the sling
192. across his shoulder
193. staring down goliath
194. there in gath or on the plain
195. carrara marble at its best
196. his battle of cascina painting lost forever
197. holy family donitondo find it in Uffizi gallery
198. yes he traveled on to rome
199. the sistine chapel ceiling
200. lying on his back
201. it took him only four short years
202. of pain of paint
203. that dripped into his eyes
204. would make a good man cry or blind
205. onto his clothes onto the scaffolds and the floor
206. creation
207. fall of man of woman too
208. the prophets
209. ancestry of CHRIST
210. 500 metres
211. ceiling figures more than three hundred
212. he knew his bible well
213. that book of genesis
214. that tells of God’s creation of God’s earth
215. as seen from space so blue and white
216. of God’s creation of mankind
217. the fall from grace
218. e’en noah and his family
219. there’s the flood
220. the seven prophets sibyls too
221. adam eve first parents
222. eden garden
223. watered by the dew
224. jeremiah stoned to death in Egypt met his end
225. cumaean moses for pope Julius tomb
226. he sculpted painted much much much much more
227. more they wished they had today at sotheby’s or Christies
228. yes fled to rome to save his life
229. from alessandro de medici
230. last judgment
231. sistine chapel altar wall
232. second coming judgment of all souls
233. HE sure will come right soon repent
234. his muscled JESUS young and beardless
235. RISEN LIVING CHRIST
236. surrounded by HIS saints
237. the resurrected souls
238. sent to heaven or hell
239. depending on their faith and works
240. conversion of st paul
241. st peter’s crucifixion
242. all his artistry
243. so terribly complex
244. in figures in details
245. this architect
246. st peter’s
247. there in rome
248. devoted to his faith
249. was such a catholic
250. his poetry
251. his life
252. did tick away
253. they say he lived so poorly
254. e’en though at times so very rich
255. indifferent to italian food and wine he ate or drank
256. not wont to walk or ride or talk
257. in leisure with those kings or popes
258. who used his day and night for their rich ends
259. yet they are lost in history
260. while he does reign supreme
261. necessities he cared for then
262. sleeping in his clothes and boots
263. rough so uncouth squalid filthy too
264. I’m wont to think it more than likely fake and envious news
265. still envied by all artists not his peers
266. today he ranks the first
267. among the sculptor artist poet seers
268. the legendary charge
269. he had disgusting habits
270. all for sculpture and for art
271. the epitaph
272. of solitary
273. melancholy
274. genius
275. drawn apart
276. the stories of the artist sculptor monk
277. this hermit to his work and craft
278. I do suspect
279. Is nothing more
280. Than envious bunk
281. his greatest sculptures of all time
282. his sistine paintings ne’er to be ecclipsed
283. three hundred sonnets madrigals he wrote
284. vittoria sweetest woman of colonna
285. wrote each other sonnets
286. he for her and her for him
287. platonic maybe
288. history dulls the sharpened view of time
289. ‘tis more than likely true
290. at least I think it true
291. he had one fault I know
292. regretted falling short
293. to kiss her face as hard as kissed her hand
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