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Welcome to the GayHeroes Michelangelo Sculpture Gallery. Here you'll find some of the most famous and amazing works of art ever created, spanning 65 years of Michelangelo's incredible career. It'll take a minute for the high quality images to load -- well worth it to experience the magnificent work of Michelangelo. Enjoy! |
Pieta,
1499, Rome |
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An earlier Florentine sculptor tried using the marble block before Michelangelo got it, but Michelangelo doesn't seem to have been hampered in the least by the cuts made by the older master. Recently returned to Florence from Rome, where he was greatly impressed by classical Greek sculptures, Michelangelo made his heroic David, 13 feet 5 inches tall, look more like Hercules than the boy who slew Goliath in the Bible. The figure's right side is relaxed; God is said to protect that side. David looks alertly to his left, from which side danger is more likely to come. The rulers of Florence adopted the statue as a patriotic symbol of the strength of the Florentine Republic. David |
Moses
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Even geniuses aren't perfect.... |
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St.
Peter's Completed after he died, the dome of St. Peter's is Michelangelo's masterpiece of monumental architecture. It's logic and perfection are such that every major dome built in the next 300 years was modeled after it; so you could say that the dome of our nation's Capitol in Washington D.C. was designed by a gay man. |
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Date Last Modified:
09/18/02