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February 18, 1564 Miguel dies
angel buonarotti the great sculptor
painter and architect in his house one of
the poorest neighborhoods of rome al
dawn the next day agents the
papa are presented in his workshop to
look for everything of interest
have there but they are barely found
something before dying, angel angel burned
all the drawings and documents that
had shortly after his
body taken secretly to florence the
almighty church to which miguel
angel had served for half
century he did not want to be surrendered
honors at a state funeral during
four and a half centuries the mysterious end
Miguel Angel has been the source of everything
kind of speculation and rumors but
now the art historian antonio
Forcellino has made an amazing
discovery that reveals a dark
reality about the last years of
Miguel Angel
the discovery of strangers
incongruities in one of his famous
sculptures made forcellino
will conduct an investigation that put
of evidence of a deception
intentional and close contact with
members of a clandestine brotherhood
considered so threatening that its
radical ideas will be punished by the
inquisition with death
It seems that even though Miguel Angel
he was glorified by the catholic church
for his sculptures and works of art
his heart and mind took him for a
dangerous path of heresy and
dissent
or it was here in the center of rome where
the famous artist created some of his
best known masterpieces
the final judgment is the fresco that decorates
the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
the home and the workshop of Miguel Angel
disappeared a long time ago but the
neighborhood is still full of churches
the art historian Antonio
Forcellino knows those churches well
as an expert in restoration has
worked on many of them but their
jobs in san pedro advíncula
they got unexpected results
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Forcellino is a distinguished and well
well-known researcher of the techniques
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in 1999 he was hired to restore
one of the most famous works of
Artist
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promotion one will be an afternoon and wait
that the usual tourists left
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then I felt spoken once
transformed into a match
I was afraid to touch even with obama and that
it was in the heart and in the photos of
people from all of the inter pianist
Miguel Angel sculpted the bassinet
1513 was 37 years old and had already created
two masterpieces
Piety for the Basilica of San Pedro
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and the david for the city of florence
it was an ascending star on the way
become the favorite artist of the
catholic church his bassinet was
considered a museum piece in italy
before even leaving Spain
when forcellino went to work in
the statue could closely check the
artistic genius of Miguel Angel
the veins finally carved in the
strong arms of moses its populated
beard his face with a stern gesture and
charismatic and his horns that
meant rays of divine light is
extraordinary that was filling it seems
real meat
the sculpture was exceptional but
during the months of restoration
Forcellino and his colleagues started
realize some great
imperfections of the masterpiece
the left leg appeared in a
strange angle and it was much more
small that the right there is a
difference of almost 10 centimeters between
the diameter and another of the other
In addition Forcellino realized that
on the left side of the neck was
strangely distorted
although the right seemed fine and
the beard was surprisingly
asymmetric wash of sinistra to the
left miguel angel had carved
a very complex magic of tufts to the
that it was very difficult to reach for
clean them with cotton sticks
on the right side the beard was
completely flat while forcellino
he worked in the state he started
suspect that Miguel Angel had
radically altered before finishing the
besides, it was not the only sculpture with
inconsistencies
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the bassinet is the centerpiece of a
funerary monument the tomb of July
second one of the great potatoes of the
Renaissance as a patron of the arts
July second I knew that the paintings
sculptures and architecture carried the
message from the church to the people
it was he who in 1506 put the first
stone of the san pedro basilica
but he is best remembered for his
successes on the battlefield and its
brusque temper was more a
energetic warrior that a holy father
However, this is how he captured it
Miguel Angel lying in a small
niche small and submissive element that
surprised at once to see how
had molded angel Michael to the pope
traditionally the pope was shown
lying dead but holy or like a
general triumphant
this dad looked something different
fragile to succeed match
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before nobody had borrowed much
attention to the pope since the statue does not
was taken in much consideration by
be the work of a second-rate sculptor
row to which miguel angel had
subcontracted to finish the sculptures
from the top of the grave
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but when examining the closely
Forcellino proved that the Pope was a
unequivocal work of Miguel Angel
in both the beating and in the statue of the
Daddy we did not find the hard features
as a mannequin from other statues of
marm has but a human expression
very natural not fined with vincente the
hands are very typical of Miguel Angel
lion its bricks and strong nails in
the capture of myth
other experts agree and now
It is generally accepted that July
second is the work of Miguel Angel G
but we still have to find out
Why Miguel Angel wanted to represent
to dad that way neither visual
option
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miguel angel met dad july
second in 1505 the pope was very
impressed by the young man's talent and
he valued his independent spirit
the two ended up admiring each other
other
the second July grave would be the
first commission from the pope the beginning of
a relationship with the holy headquarters that
would mark the rest of his life but his
mutual affection makes the shaping of
Miguel Angel del Papa is even more
strange and the other statues leave us
equally perplexed angel miguel
called those statues the active life and
the contemplative life the figures that are
they had been using in the church
Catholic since medieval times
they usually symbolized the two paths
towards salvation
faith that is the contemplative life and the
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good works or active life
art history books that
consulted forcellino said that life
actively kept a bouquet of flowers in her
left hand
and a mirror on the right but up close
Forcellino proved that those objects did not
they were the ones who had described the bouquet
it looked more like a crown of leaves
of laurel and the mirror was a kind of
torch is called cut that can not
sell smoke
we realized that it was impossible
that a mirror looked more like
a torch or a small lamp
Forcellino was surprised that no
another art historian would have
realized these inconsistencies
investigated other descriptions of the
tomb but he finally understood that
I had to go directly to the source
Of the Information
resorted to the official biography of
Miguel Angel that had been dictated
personally by the artist a young
scribe ascanio with lived near the
end of his life in 1551 attentive
Miguel Angel paid close attention to
the symbols of his works
I studied very carefully any
small iconographic detail and what
he worked very carefully all the
love on the pages dedicated to the
grave of the Pope
Forcellino made a discovery
amazing the same angel angel was
the guilty of the equivocal
descriptions
limachi his biography hostess the way
active and it was Miguel Angel who dictated the
description of a female figure that
you look in a mirror
I started lehman but it's clear that
what he maintains is not a mirror but
another object
I think it's a torch, a lamp
of oil and today it seems a discrepancy
minor but during the life of Miguel
angel had a great importance as
no one but the clergy could read the
Bible
the majority of the faithful was very
influenced by the imagery
religious that motivated could have had
Miguel Angel to describe
incorrectly the statue for
find the answer forcellino
inquired between the historical writings and
started an obsessive search of
authentic meaning of the work of
Miguel Angel
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leaving aside second-hand stories
of the life of miguel angel and even his
autobiography
Forcellino rummaged through contracts
signed by Miguel Angel and the Pope
July second
according to the first document
dated in 1505 the tomb of hery to be a
great tribute to the imperial reign
of Pope July second a huge
monument composed of three heights with
no less than 40 biblical figures and
mythical miguel angel would be paid
generously but it would be a long time
before the project ended and
almost from the first day July he
He was distracting with other projects
in 1508 he asked Miguel Angel that
will decorate the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
an immense work in which he would have to
work all day
over five years
but what would the
universal recognition of being the best
living painter of the world
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the tomb of the pope was still a
project on paper when july
second died in 1513
during the following years miguel
angel was constantly pressed by
the next dads to forget
his obligations with July second and
will work for them
however the heirs of July
second they accused miguel angel of
default when accepting a money without
have completed the grave
it would be 40 years before the artist left
the project will end
besides its final aspect was only one
shadow of the greatness of the design
original
went down in history as a pastiche without
a particular meaning mounted by a
aged angel miguel just for
end the dispute that he maintained from
40 years ago with the pope's family
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however something said forcellino
that there was something else and he reread the
biography of Miguel Angel to know
the negotiations that led to the
completion of the tomb
Forcellino discovered that Miguel Angel
emphasized the participation of
a dark cardinal ercole gonzaga in the
final design of the monument in 1542 the
habitat of con di
without mentioning the biography written by
with vivi mentioned in passing to a
person who had never been
related to Miguel Angel before the
Cardinal Gonzaga with Libya affirms
teconsa gavio the bassinet in the workshop
Miguel angel and said that only the
sculpture would be a sufficient tribute
for July second of the title memory
according to Michelangelo sculpted in 1513
the bassinet for the tomb of the pope but
when the project was simplified
the sculpture was discarded for being
too big it reappeared in
the plans in 1542
thanks to a suggestion from gonzaga
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Gonzaga was a political figure and
religious very relevant mid-year
16th century was also close relative
of Pope July second for years the
cardinal was mediator in the tense
negotiations with Miguel Angel
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came from a rich family that
governed the city state of mantua a
of the most refined and progressive of
Italy your documents are kept in
the archives of the city wrote to
papa wrote in saga was written with
the pope with the emperor carlos pinto and
with the ambassadors of the great
European powers
he was a very influential character
between your documents against several
letters about Miguel Angel that never
before the letters had been published
in which Miguel Angel appeared
they were aimed at two personalities
European majorities of the time a
mighty english cardinal called
Reginal bowl and the noble Roman poet
vittoria colonna gonçaga poli colonna
they were obviously close friends who
they wrote and met frequently
clearly they knew Miguel very well
angel they mention it is often deprived
of diarco lion saga will be already angels
the private letters of gonzaga put
I was very introduced to the dark world
in your god or a group of people who
around the year 1545 they knew very
well to Miguel Angel Lancho in the
thousandth 145
gonzaga and the others admired Miguel
angel but they were involved in
other matters of much greater importance than
sculpture or art were part of
a religious revival that he put in
danger to the very foundations of the
Catholic Church
the conflict centered around the
growing religious battle between
church and the reformist Protestants
Martin Luther and his followers
Protestants were against the
moral decadence of the church sale
of indulgences the ostentatious wealth of
papacy and the corruption that had
extended among the clergy for the first time
in 1,500 years the Catholic church
I was in a deep crisis
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colon to polygon saga they were in
the first line of this debate
religious belonged to a number
growing Catholic faithful
scattered throughout Italy who wished
a profound renewal of faith
Catholica
they wanted a reform but they believed that
they could get the from within the
church to avoid segregation
but the catholic church had the
reformist ideas and the conservatives
they wanted to take extreme measures to
prevent more gives a certain moment the
history of this group when Miguel
angel made the grave group is more
important to me related that the
measure itself in the face of history
of the latu
Historical sources confirm that
gonçaga public canvas were
important reformers and their letters
they show that he had great esteem for
Miguel Angel but they were simple lovers
of art or there was something else in its
admiration for the artist for
find out
Forcellino got in touch with
alexander naya the art historian
who knows that religious debate
it influenced in miguel angel miguel cree
that miguel angel and vittoria colonna
he maintained a friendship that surpassed the
art we do not know when Miguel Angel
known to vitoria colony but it must be
around the 1630s all
the known documents indicate that
they had a close relationship
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colom has celebrated poet life came from
from one of the most affluent families and
nobles of rome
we have several crossed letters
among them with a lot of information that
they talk about their mutual feelings and
his opinions on poetry art and
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of those letters clearly emerges
that although Miguel Angel and Colon A were
fervent Catholics longed for a
religious reform in a letter the
artist is shown according to one of
The main ideas held by
Luther in his attack on the church
says or seen of divine grace non
placed as father
that means that divine grace does not
can be bought should not be good
works or give money just to get
a chapel in a church or pay for
that they say masses for the salvation of
to have
in the letters of Miguel Angel appears
a growing concern for his soul
after death
the catholic church said that you can
win heaven by having faith and doing
good works like going to mass and giving money
to the poor and the church
but the Protestants said that I do not know
I could do nothing to buy the
salvation because salvation is
got by faith and only by the fed
it is clear from his
epistolary exchange both of Miguel
angel like from colon to which they were from
agreement with Protestantism in this
delicate question but yes Miguel
angel was questioning theology
ecclesiastical also asked
reflect on his role as an artist
at the service of the church and the artists
they will be an important part of the problem
of the time most of them
they made religious art whether they were fresh
for a chapel or a tomb finally
decorated for a church
that was the kind of work they did
the artists for Miguel Angel the
problem was especially acute his
main client was not a church
anybody but the holy headquarters that
he understood that his art was a means
powerful to transmit faith during
the mass
Miguel Angel created works of art that
they glorified the church but
Forcellino also found some
very different drawings that the artist
he made for vittoria colonna his message
it was more personal than the paintings
of the Vatican palaces in a sense
material did not cost much money but
they were full of content with those
drawings angel angel ac of his
more scathing comments about art
religious and ecclesiastical art
the hydrogen traffic and donations
in good works
edwards had to rediscover
christ and those drawings contribute to that
end in a very effective way
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in the drawings it was totally ignored
the church jesus entered directly
in contact with people
these drawings circulated among the
friends of gonzaga and miguel angel seems
to have dedicated 1 to regina to the poor the
English cardinal destined to play
a very important role in the struggles
religious who were about to
start bowl was one of the cardinals
most powerful and respected of his time
to better understand your ideas
reformers Forcellino resorted to the
Professor Thomas Mayer is important
realize that it is one of
the greatest English nobles bowl
by birth although not the first one in
the succession line
was very close to the throne was sent to
italy by enrique octavo to paula
he received the most exquisite education
he knew everyone and when
he returned to England he hoped to be
named archbishop of canterbury the
spiritual head of the English church
I was in the center of all that
activity when he left england 1532
bull returned to italy in a moment
critical pablo third elected in 1534
inspired great hopes among the
Italian reformers appointed cardinals
supports other main progressives
but nevertheless the changes that
introduced were very limited
in 1541 Paul became governor
papal de viterbo a city next to
Rome.
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his personal charisma made him the
focal point of a network of bishops and
theologians and trend humanists
reformist among them vittoria colonna
and ercole consacá according to the references
de forcellino the group was called the
spiritual and they were mostly
extremely privileged people and
well educated they had a concept
very spiritual of religion that now
we know that it was very close to
Protestantism
but in his day his ideas were not
Protestants but they wanted it to be
will develop according to the form
of traditional thinking about the relationship
of man with jazz the faithful
Catholics saw in dust a guide that
I could drive them through a lot
intermediate and that would help them avoid
a split with the Protestants that
they wanted the church to be more
Spiritual
Miguel Angel had very similar ideas
to those in this group clearer
he belonged that's why he reflected his
ideas in your images
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at the beginning of the 1630s the
spiritual and they were on top of the
power and the popularity of italy and in
the same church
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it seemed that it could finally be realized
a profound renewal of faith
Catholic but very concerned about the
growing influence of the spiritual and
the conservative faction of the church
he joined forces to defend his
authority his paladin was the cardinal
giampietro caraffa
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in a 17th century biography
forcellino found a description
surprising for fabian written like
as you carafe was described as the
older and the more glorious and more
ruthless pursuer of heresy
italy as well as the biggest and most
glorious and ruthless pursuer of
most important group of heretics
Italians the queen of the pool and wine
injured voice and victory colo gaza
came from a Neapolitan family
illustrious and noble had aspirations to
papacy and saw in its main population
competitor their destinies came to be
closely intertwined
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the two were named cardinals to the
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they both had great aspirations
but that rafa was much more
active that paul
apart from that his training was very
Similary
I think that was a very important point
however, a generation separated them
something also very important because
every dad wanted paulette
another aspect that Paul did not want
give them just because he was older than him
let's also say that caraffa was not a
very flexible people
unlike Paul who was open
to Caraza Protestant ideas
considered that Lutheranism was
synonymous with more austere energy and
rigid became the fiercest
enemy of the spiritual
rafa made common cause with the faction
most conservative roman I wanted that
the situation will not change
I had tremendous power and I act
astutely support was followed by poets
artists and people who were not
accustomed to discipline in that
Rafael was ahead
concacaf has decided to eliminate the
Protestants and the spiritual and miguel
angel was at a crossroads
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since 1536 the artist had been
hired as architect sculptor and
supreme painter of the vaticano in 1541
ended the final judgment
a fresco that represented the second
Coming of Christ for the Sistine Chapel
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but caraza started an attack against his
work adducing that the nudity of the
bodies was obscene and totally immoral
inadequate for a Christian chapel
Miguel Angel was devastated in his
despair wrote that judgment
it will be so barbarous that it denies that the foot
of man is more noble than his boot and
that your skin is more dignified than that of a
lamb his sensitivity was the essence
her rebirth her attention
was aimed at the man did not
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fortunately for Miguel Angel the
papa pablo third came out right away in
your defense
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he showed his support by offering him another
papal commission of great magnitude
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however I criticized him fat to useless
despite the scandal of friends
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the pope pablo third wanted that
will decorate your private chapel access
the Pauline chapel in which Miguel
angel mari angels nude still
more beautiful sensual than those of the trial
it was a single wall made and said
universal caraza denounced the frescoes
of Miguel Angel for indecent
but in reality the nudity was only
a secondary offense to what coffee and
his followers the conservatives are
really opposed was the lack of
attention paid to the hierarchy
ecclesiastical there were no paintings of
Popes or bishops with their trappings
rituals jesus spoke directly with
San Pablo
Forcellino believes that Miguel Angel is
inspired for this work in a passage that
was one of the foundations on which
based Protestantism
when Jesus said to Saint Paul that
believe in me will be saved is not a
exaggeration suppose that miguel angel
knew this passage we know from their
contemporaries that the artist had
a bible and how he did not know Latin his
copy must be a version
Italian forbidden Martin Luther
translated the bible into German but very
soon others followed his example
editions like the Italian
however the possession of the bible
on the part of the laity was
considered a crime against the church
in March 1542
forty years after having it
started miguel angel finished the grave
of July second
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but again he was involved in a
religious conflict
that summer caraffa had gone to the
offensive and convinced pablo third
to reinstate the inquisition for
share Protestantism and its
supporters
within the church the pope
appointed caraffa general inquisitor
but at the beginning he did not give funds a
compensatory way of acting typical of
this caraffa pope could fight
openly to Protestantism but
I had to be more careful with the
spiritual and since the pope had in
great esteem for Cardinal Paul Garrafa
devoted to slowly gather evidence
against Paul while chasing
the less protected reformists though
they differ in their first victim was
bernardino opined a preacher
itinerant of Siena famous for the
beauty and content of his sermons
flight
oki was not close friend of vittoria
colonna and had many followers in
continuous italy vega
gaza called ok and not rome so that
will explain some parts of your
sermons that seemed dubious
having been imprisoned he opined he decided to go
north in search of the security of the
protest against switzerland gonçaga what
dismissed at the closed border do not leave
with vinicio ruiz in his age a severe
sopero libre or kino wrote a color to
I have decided to flee since it is clear that
in rome want to start the reform
starting with my death
now I can finally take the
mask and tell the truth
is concerned about the safety of
colon to paul convinced him so that
will deliver the letter to the inquisition
so as not to be related to his friend
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so he did but the letter and the flight of
oki did not give carafal the reasons that
I needed to look for support
international for your campaign against
Paul and the spiritual and the threat
continued to progress the spiritual ones and
they were forced to hide for
continue your work on the manifest
reformist the benefit of christ
these groups is already cut the group is
met in viterbo to prepare the
publication of his manifesto
atyrá tural printed 40 thousand copies
although the manuscript had already circulated
Widely among the reformists
Italian was written in a very prose
direct was full of quotes from the
parents of the church with a light
changing focus of ams the point
crucial of which the official church does not
appeared nowhere but the
The text was the same as the
Protestantism that faith in Christ was
the key to salvation even though paul
He assured that the
good works it was affirmed that the church
and its sacraments does not play any
role in the salvation of man his
book was published anonymously by
course and quickly became the
white of the inquisition that tried to
remove the manifest from circulation
and persecuted its authors
Rafa declared it ethical and censured it
stuffed with the vittoria colon colonna
suspected of being among the editors
they were brought before the inquisition
to be interrogated
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four hundred and fifty years later
Forcellino believes that they are still saved
documents of the minutes of the
Inquisition against the members of the
spiritual and many archives and
transcripts have been destroyed but
in the Vatican archive he has found
letters from paul and colón to which they were
intercepted by coffee spies
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one of those letters contains a
unexpected reference to miguel angel
It was written by Vittoria Colonna in her
speaks of the meeting of 1543 in which
the spiritual ones and they wrote their
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in the letter it is expressly said that
Miguel Angel attended that meeting
apparently the artist took one of
his drawings for colon to his presence
in such an important meeting
showed that Miguel Angel not only
they shared the ideals of their friends
but also had access to
forbidden manifesto of the spiritual and
when he was finishing the grave of
July second to forcellino the
Historical evidence accumulate opinion
that you notice the influence of ideas
religious of the spiritual and in the
tomb that Miguel Angel made for the
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surely christie match the source of
light
the torch in the hand of life as well
Barça goes directly to the
heart of the content of having glasses
of Christ of the benefit of Christ
in the manifest the spiritual ones and
adhered to the belief of
Protestantism that only faith in
Christ could open the doors of the
paradise but to try to placate
the church were careful to say that
good works like charity had
also its importance the good works
will be the burning flames that
they illuminated the authentic faith of
good Christians the figure we see
with a torch represents the good
works do not possess the power of the
salvation but they can illuminate the faith
of the accident
Forcellino asserts that the spiritual and
they were the source of inspiration for
Miguel Angel for the strange statue
of the pope to communicate in the pope is the
statue of the pope who at first
it seemed inexplicable the ends explains
perfectly perfectly clear
in light of the ideas of this group
embodied in the benefit of Christ
benefit of christ
this goes for him to millions for Miguel
Angel
this was the best expression of the pama
the one that does not touch siri thrown a papacy
bush that should move away from greatness
imperial to devote himself with all his
forces when cultivating the faith to oil
Forcellino believes that the shortcomings of
Moses are also explained by the
influence of the spiritual and found
an anonymous document but close to
Miguel Angel who supported his
initial deductions that in the
last moment the artist sculpted from
new the statue to turn his head
toward the left
that would explain the strangeness of his shoulder
beard and leg
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we know that Miguel Angel was capable of
do something like this we have seen in the
mercy round or me in which Miguel
giron angel 90 ° the face of the virgin
but we did not know that there was also no
that lot in their countries
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when Michelangelo sculpted the
bassinet in 1513 the statue seemed
look forward to the altar where the
priest celebrated the mass but
decades later according to forcellino the
artist did not want that bassinet will look at
the symbols of the catholic church
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christopher froome the famous historian
of art and mentor of forcellino is of
according to this theory
I could have left it as it was
It was a prick in the great project
original should be one of the statues
from the top but I do not know
became the protagonist of a
monument at the moment in which miguel
angel had great doubts about the
official church
that's why he did not want to put it looking towards
I put the altar looking for light
light that he had not found but
I was looking to enter
direct contact with god
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redirecting the look of the statue
outside the altar
Miguel Angel manifested his belief of
that god is directly related to
man without intervention of the
clerics forcellino is convinced of
that the artist transforms a monument
dedicated to the memory of a pope in the
political and religious manifesto of the
spiritual and but in 1549 the
dad pablo third who had protected
for a long time to the spiritual and
to Miguel Angel despite having
granted to carafal authority for
chase them
before expiring the Pope said that Paul
it was his favorite to succeed him but at
English lacked a vote to get
Most of them
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chan moment included moncobra crowd
and if they could have prevented me
traumatic solution to the crisis
religious of europe
but Cardinal Caraffa did
disappear that hope when
intervened in the conclave saying that
I had evidence of the energy of
police polo
in the test consisted of the
Paul's participation in the
publication of the manifest benefit
of Christ
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Paul was defeating him
the dream of the spiritual and of
reforming the church was shattered
in 1555 Caraffa was named Pope and the
Inquisition became one of the
fundamental tools of the church
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one of the first caraza decisions
was to withdraw the pension to Miguel
Angel
the artist found himself isolated and alone
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vittoria colonna had died in
mysterious circumstances a few years
before
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fill polio to england and its
allies gave him a position of
ambassador to the pope but caraffa
I repeatedly tried to extradite him and
Take him to trial as Miguel Angel
ercole gonzaga was silenced by fear
the names of almost all the spiritual
and they were in the power of the inquisition and
some of the most intimate friends of
Miguel Angel were imprisoned
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Forcellino believes that the symbolism that
Miguel Angel had printed on the grave
of the pope has done in a moment in
the one that the spiritual and were strong
He could end up costing his life
that needed to mask the authentic
meaning of his work has put point
of sale commit to that the moment if
someone openly expressed his ideas
about the spiritual ones and ran a serious
danger
stanley with the single grave that was of
stone the well-born emtusa of the
conviction the moment your ideas
would one day succeed the tomb level
of an element or promises that if you get there
to see you
that explains why a year later
when dictating his biography with / miguel
judeo-angel an absurd description
so wrong of his work
the words of Miguel Angel hid
carefully the authentic meaning
of the sculptures
the torch and the laurel wreath that
Forcellino believed at the beginning that
they symbolized the idea of the spiritual and
that charity was important but not
I could get salvation on my own
alone it became a garland of
flowers and in a mirror representing the
prudence the reference to prudence
I had obviously a double entender
prudent religious thoughts for
all and prudent actions for him given
its dangerous circumstances
incredibly the cover of Miguel
angel remained for four centuries
and a half
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Miguel Angel lived the rest of his
days in a climate of fear and
Intimidation
the Caraffa Pope threatened to destroy
the final judgment and the church out
covering the nudes of the chapel
Sistine and Pauline
However, although Caraffa tried to
relegate to miguel angel other people
inside the church and they asked him to
protect the image of the papacy
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he was called to save the
basilica of san pedro whose
construction had begun in 1506
the huge basilica would become
a living symbol of the unquestionable
papal power but construction was seen
accompanied by corruption and scandals
and the church believed that angel miguel
he was the only one who could restore the
order and finish the project
so under the oppressive law of graffiti
artist had to work on his last
and overwhelming now
in his last days miguel angel
He also worked on a sculpture for
his own grave was portrayed in it from
nicodemo the man who went to see
Jesus crucified at night because
did not have the courage to do it openly
during the day
in this very personal sculpture the
artist clearly lamented his torment
of not being able to manifest his
true faith in public
when Miguel Angel felt that the
death was approaching it burned almost all
his drawings and letters
he did not want anyone to know his more
intimate thoughts
comforted by his bible he died in his
bed on February 18, 1564
his body was driven out of the
low city for his
in florence the native city of Miguel
Angel
hundreds of people came with
tears in the eyes to render the
final tribute to the man they called
the divine artist only with his death
could miguel angel escape the city
in a moment of deep agitation
internal
He dedicated his whole life to serving the
church and make monuments for her
as a devout and faithful Catholic but at
at the same time the extraordinary painter
sculptor and architect fought
bravely to openly defend
his idea of what the church should be
I know.
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