Michelangelo: Lover of the Male Body

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Trust me, Jason, where I live, it isn't pretentious, it's my only source of central heating and hot water.

Now, catch up and get my jokes please, or I will be forced to go and post in the sex with a big dong section.

You have to get your servants' wing some more modern conveniences. They need electricity and glass in the windows too.

Pretentious! Moi? :biggrin1:

Now, your painter David. Remarkably technically accomplished, striking and dramatic, but a little overly romantic politically. No wonder you like him :tongue:.

David is pretentious. As you can see, in his painting of my coronation, he has painted himself to be in a section reserved for my generals when he wasn't anywhere near there!
 

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jason, Nick8: Click this link. It's "The Last Judgement" that was referenced in that wikipedia page on Carafa.

Notice everybody's manhood is discreetly covered. Was this painting altered after Michelangelo's death? (there's a lot of fig leaves & g-strings)

Click on to the image to enlarge (your keyboard arrows will allow you to pan left or right):

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Lastjudgement.jpg
 

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Notice everybody's manhood is discreetly covered. Was this painting altered after Michelangelo's death? (there's a lot of fig leaves & g-strings)

And, coincidentally enough, most of those conveniently flung scraps of cloth were in the exact shade of black. Had there been a sale at the fabric remainder store that day?
 

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You have to get your servants' wing some more modern conveniences. They need electricity and glass in the windows too.

Don't be a damned fool man. You make their quarters comfortable and they lounge around for more than four hours a day.


David is pretentious. As you can see, in his painting of my coronation, he has painted himself to be in a section reserved for my generals when he wasn't anywhere near there!

His technical ability and mastery of colour and light is awesome. However, I am a Caravaggio man at heart. Caravaggio.com#
 

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HI i'VE READ THAT CLASSIC GREEK (bloody caps lock!) sculpture portrayed cultivated heroes and gods with small phalluses and satyrs with gross lkarge ones, symbolizing base animal instincts.
therefore the more elevated subjects couldn't be shown with large (uncouth, animal cocks) so all the athletes, warriors etc always were small and "neat" not through any prurience but through a different value system to ours.
These styles were passed down through Rome and into the Renaissance, although the reasoning was probably lost to them.
But who knows what went on in the twisted minds of Renaissance Catholic Cardinals.
ps I'm art trained and cock obsessed, but it was M's DAVID'S hands and tendons that left me breathless.
I've done art anatomy and drawn countless naked men, but gosh it looks like I'm going to have to raid a cemetery and cut up a corpse if I'm going to improve.
Thanks for this thread, too.