Daniele da Volterra, “Portrait of Michelangelo,” Teylers Museum, Haarlem (photo by Veronika Roux-Vlachova) The near-mythic name of Michelangelo conjures many things: the divine, swirling figures of ...
Artists have always recycled their era’s “Old Masters”: Romans quoted the Greeks, Rodin studied Michelangelo, and Picasso returned to Rembrandt, to name just a few. While the prevalence of these ...
The devil is in the details, or, in the case of art history, the drapery. Just think of the elegant folds on the peplos of Greek caryatids or the fluttering peach mantle in Sandro Botticelli’s Birth ...