MICHAELANGELO BONAROTTI WAS ABLE TO SCULPT MANY RELIEF CARVINGS IN CARRARA MARBLE WITH JUST A HAMER AND CHISELS...
Michelangelo returned to Florence after four years of been in Rome, to create one of the most amazing sculptures true history, one sculpture that changes the period from the Romanesque and Gotic were the Art was in the stage of primitivist... This piece was the revolution of how we created sculpture, this was one of the most important commissions of his amazing career; THE DAVID...
MichaelAngelo's father due to the economic hardship that had fallen on the family request for him to return to Florence “In the spring of 1501, the artist was back home. He returned as one who, with a single masterpiece, had proved that at the age of twenty-six he could claim to be the best sculptor of his country and his age, even though at the time we his competition of the genial Leonardo da Vinci was still living and working not too far...
What other stone sculpture Michaelangelo was working at the same time with the Pitti Tondo?
His commission of the David for the city of Florence dominated his time in Florence. But there were several other pieces that he created at this time, including the Tondo Pitti, which is also referred to as the Pitti Madonna. The Tondo Pitti was commissioned by Bartolommeo Pitti and was created at about the same time as the Tondo Taddei and The Doni Madonna. These pieces all show Michelangelo’s interest with the subject of the Virgin and Child, but these pieces demonstrate a much freedom with the technic, and also creating a graceful composition that describes the scene of love and motherhood...
The hands of Michaelangelo creating the Pitti Tondo
Much like the Tondo Taddei, the Tondo Pitti was a piece intended to be displayed a the home and not for the grand palace audiences, like the David or the Pieta in St. Peter’s. Many determinate that this piece was to be unfinished but the validity of this argument is more widely disputed than with the Tondo Taddei...
Why Michelangelo left the work semi finished like the Pitti Tondo?
No Michael Angelo saw a new Trent a new form of expression. That will be the begging of Fredon expression of Contemporary Art, and we see used in full by Rodin Art. Today is the most and used way to created contemporary Art.
“The unworked details give them a suggestive power and the story to continue by the eyes of the public which might have been lost in a more polished finished piece...
Michelangelo’s composition places the Madonna seated on a stone, its forward edge projected toward the viewer, while the figure of the Madonna looks that she is reading a book, until her son Jesus Christ interrupted her, as he places his elbow, supporting his head onto her book. The child St. John peers over the Virgin’s shoulder, creating a moment of contemplation true making eye contact with one another.
“Michelangelo has employed a simple shape to unique effect. He has given the upper edge of the marble, a round shape like a medallion, and also a concavity to created more three-dimensional effect...
How Michaelangelo was able to create all his amazing artwork with A Hammer And Chisel
In this time and age, we are blessing with electricity, air compressors, any power tools, big machinery to move anything, so imagen Michaelangelo getting an over twenty feet block of Carrara marble. Less think about this? one square foot waits for about 150lbs. If we do the matt it will be a lot, how they manage all of this, all done by manpower and horsepower, it was a lot of obstacles but nothing hold him back to create all amazing masterpieces, all done one chisel a the time.Less assume that we are watching him in his shop, so how he stared the David, well after they stand the large block of Carrara marble they build a wooden scaffold, Michaelangelo probably draw the silhouette with charcoal sticks and grab his fever mallet that probably waits about 4 pounds in his right hand and a large pointed chisel and started hammer like a mad men for hours and hours you star see a round shape in the top of the marble and a lot of fragments flying everywhere in the room. He works and works by the end of week one, he probably has sketched the upper part of the head.
