Word: michael
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...wisdom is not the having learned any particular thing, but the result of many knowledge mutually acting upon and modifying each other. Michael Angelo chose for his emblem the figure of an old man in a child's go-cart with the motto, anchor impair,- I am still learning. Titian, dying of the plague at ninety-nine, exclaimed sadly, "My God, must I die now, just as I had learned to paint an eye!" Indeed the word learning, which we use to express a result, does by its very form imply an unfinished and unfinishable process. What the judgment requires...
...first of the great masters of this time is Michael Angelo. He stands alone entirely distinct from all his contemporaries. His individuality was very strong and impresses itself into all his works. All his figures are of a somewhat gloomy type, but all are strong and majestic. He had none of the gentler or finer qualities essential to the painter, for he was not a painter, as he himself said, but a sculptor. He had a great command of line and was probably the most wonderful draughtsman that ever lived. His subjects are almost all religious. He had many followers...
Professor Van Dyke at the end of the lecture showed a number of stereopticon views of the works of Michael Angelo, Raphael and their followers...
...Florentian school, we find all three of the elements of the painting of this period combined. He was a pupil of Savonarola, and was a charming painter if not a great one. The leader of the new awakening in art in Florence was Mazatio, a man whom Raphael and Michael Angelo did not disdain to follow. Many men of other schools also were drawn to Florence who in time adopted the Florentine School. At this period there were really in Italy, but two great schools, the Florentine and the Venetian. All the others were small branches from these...
This was the high noon of the Renaissance, for it was the time of Raphael, Michael Angelo and Correggio. The first two are of course well known to all; Correggio is not. Though all his faces are too much alike, yet everyting of his is lovely. Besides this, he was one of the half dozen sublime painters of the earth. In all his figures there is a certain puissance, which in a few years had exerted an influence over all Italian painting. The summit had been reached, however, and the decadence of art soon began...