Best Michelangelo Poems

I told him we were broken, the way
horses can be, and he galloped through 
the sentence like a cowboy, less a
heart.  I loosed the...

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Michelangelo
Paints the vault of Sistina.
His old hands are firm.

Michelangelo
Paints the vault of Sistina.
Tiring position.

Michelangelo
Paints the vault of Sistina.
Youthful fervency.

Michelangelo
Paints the vault of Sistina.
No matter his...

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Love and Grief
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The love of mother and son depicted in a marble statue,
the Pieta, said to be the most beautiful in Rome to this day;
no...

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The Deposition by Michelangelo


He could not stop once he began the work
Of shaping a most painful scene in stone
For the whole world to see and...

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Two renaissance artists . . .

Leonardo Da Vinci created enduring works during his lifetime,
too many to list but perhaps the most well known is the...

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MICHELANGELO: Modern English Translations

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is considered by many experts to be the greatest artist and sculptor of all time. These are modern English...

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My profound admiration for Michelangelo goes
beyond the Renaissance genius that he was;
humanness on humble faces out of norm, 
seeking their Creator with a human form!


I...

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Michelangelo and Leonardo both painted a fresco.
Said Leo, “I’ll paint it after I drink my expresso”.
The result was “The Battle of Anghiari”,
And the Italians ooh’d...

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It took Michelangelo
To find where David was hidden
In a chunk of rock,
To chip and scrape away
All that was not the shepherd king.

It took Michelangelo
To find...

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Genesis 1:26-27
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the...

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Leonardo and Michelangelo

GRADE 3 – ART CLASS

TEACHER! TEACHER!  LEONARDO TOLD ME I SHOULD GO PAINT A CEILING.


6/18/2016...

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MICHELANGELO -an art phrasis

High renaissance of a pieta piece,
marbled sculpture of our Lord.
Santa Sopra,tactile touched.Frescos,
paint bright, fresh as yesterday.
Stupendous works of art,
suspended above,in space.
Multifaceted mastercraftsman
gifted...

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News alert: Graffiti rampant on Piazzo del Poplo 1500,
“Da Vinci smokes pot to get high”
“Michelangelo’s a young upstart teen, can’t paint for crap”,
Was a graffiti...

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Her frustration was so absolute
Ambiguous yet so resolute,
She seemed like an analogy
Of what she was and what she’d be,
So sated with the modern world
Yet other...

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MICHELANGELO TRANSLATIONS

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet. He and his fellow Florentine, Leonardo da Vinci, were rivals...

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