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Rate 16yo Michelangelo's "Battle of the Centaurs" (pic)
| 718-662-5970 | 04/28/25 |
| The Emilio Estevez of the SEC | 04/28/25 |
| 718-662-5970 | 04/28/25 |
| ,,.,.,, | 04/28/25 |
| Faggottini | 04/28/25 |
| 718-662-5970 | 04/28/25 |
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Date: April 28th, 2025 8:42 AM Author: 718-662-5970 Plan is, Im retiring.
But on my slow path to the door of this place, I will post some cool random shit
At 16, Michelangelo, son of a fading family - rich in name, poor in money - had already failed out of classics school, had middling success as a painter's apprentice, and finally made his way to be a sculptor's apprentice, where he was noticed and invited to live in the Medici palace.
This was his second big try at working marble:
He choose the greek story of the Lapiths and Centaurs. The human lapiths had been warring with the horsemen for a long time, till the lapith king decided he wanted peace and invited the brutes to his wedding. They got very drunk and tried to rape the bride (thats her with her ass sticking out), which ignited this battle.
Probably a loose analogue for Greeks v Persians and really civilization v barbarity.
Controversial choice because it was pre-Christian, not explicitly religious, it was nude. Michelangelo further took big risks because his figures were multi-planed, chaotic, with limbs inelegant and askew, violating all the rules of the form.
Wilder, he left it very unfinished and rough. "Stoney".
Thematically, he sort of demythologized or remythologized the story, because there are no real horsemen visible. Everyone looks human. The guy on bottom may be half-horse, or may just be being crushed by a dying horse.
Also, the weapons in everyone's hands are stones and rocks, even as they emerge from stone and are carved from stone, and the piece itself emphasizes its stoniness with its rough chisel marks and unfinished edges. Man emerging from stone to use stone to brutalize man. Civilization rising in relief from barbaric elements, etc., through violence.
Preftigious for a sixteen year old
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Date: April 28th, 2025 11:59 AM Author: The Emilio Estevez of the SEC I retired over Easter weekend (it’s been a long time coming) but thank Goodness this bat signal came through, somehow, something somewhere in the Heavensent instincts telling me to check for signs of life.
Godspeed my brother - until we meet again, once more my favorite postcard from our true country:
"And once again, after who knows what aeons of the silence and dark, the birds will sing and the waters flow, and lights and shadows move across the hills, and the faces of our friends laugh upon us with amazed recognition." |
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Date: April 28th, 2025 12:25 PM Author: 718-662-5970 I'll meet you at Santa Monica pier at sunset, bro. Not sure what date or year. Or if either or both of us will be alive still.
But I will meet you there one million percent. I dont think we will have a hard time recognizing each other |
Date: April 28th, 2025 12:03 PM Author: ,,.,.,, nice poast. ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5717448&forum_id=2Elisa#48887085) |
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Date: April 28th, 2025 12:04 PM Author: Faggottini He was a homo lol This is very degenerate, not trad, not based |
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Date: April 28th, 2025 12:25 PM Author: 718-662-5970 yeah i dont think Michelangelo was trad in any way.
trad should mean desperately getting back to what he was, if trad is worth a shit |