Word: michelangelo
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall, Professor Paul Clemen, Visiting Professor of German Art, will give the first of a series of five lectures in German on "The Life and Works of Michelangelo." Today's lecture will be on "Florenz und die Jugendwerke." These lectures will be illustrated by the stereopticon and will be open to the public. The dates and titles of the four other lectures will be as follows...
...LECTURES ON MICHELANGELO. I. "Florenz und die Jugendwerke." Professor Clemen. New Lecture Hall...
...LECTURES ON MICHELANGELO. I. "Florenz und die Jugendwerke." Professor Clemen. New Lecture Hall...
Throughout all the intellectual strees of his time, Michelangelo never lost his faith in the central ideas of the Christian religion. He was greatly influenced by the powerful preaching of Savonarola, with whose desire for reformation of the church and the freedom of Florence he deeply sympathized...
...Michelangelo's work the sensuous beauty of the elder art gives place to an intensity of life of which the ancient sculptors had little conception. The art of Greece shows us human nature in untroubled freedom, the art of Michelangelo brings before us the poignant strivings of a later day when the soul obtained peace only through the mastery of evil. Life as he sees it is not hopeless, but sublime. Both his sculpture and his poems bear profound testimony to his belief in the realities of Christianity...