Michelangelo Marble Faun
Living in the medici household michelangelo had access to the art collection.
Michelangelo marble faun. Lorenzo de medici falls in love with michelangelo s genius. One day lorenzo himself saw the boy carving a marble faun s head. 19 the novel opens in the capitoline museum where a group of three artists kenyon an american sculptor hilda an american painter and miriam a painter. Lorenzo liked it so much that he took michelangelo to live with him in his palace.
This depiction of a half man half goat so admired by lorenzo is sadly lost but it marked the beginning of the artist s long and distinguished career as a sculptor. Lorenzo surrounded himself with poets and intellectuals. Lorenzo saw a marble faun s head carved by michelangelo and liked it so much that he invited michelangelo to live with him in his palace. Another young sculptor in the lorenzo gardens was pietro torrigiano.
Head of a faun is a lost sculpture by italian renaissance master michelangelo dating from c. One day michelangelo while copying an ancient faun head decided to get noticed customizing it. Lorenzo de medici falls in love with michelangelo s genius. He was older bigger and stronger than michelangelo and in a fight he broke michelangelo s.
The attempt to make mythical creatures yet live which was the animating force behind the wonder book remains the central impulse behind the marble faun and its status as romance. Posted on 25 09 2020 by rora. Jerry the marble faun torre b. It has been realized while attending the san marco garden school of art founded by lorenzo de medici.
The fresco of michelangelo presenting his faun to lorenzo enables us to witness the reality of the event. 1955 is an american sculptor he is best known for his appearance in the 1975 independent documentary films grey gardens and the beales of grey gardens by albert and david maysles as a sculptor his work has been shown in several galleries in new york city and written about in the new york times the wall street journal vogue architectural digest. The marble faun volume 2 by nathaniel hawthorne illustrated. Embellishing condivi in 1568 vasari claims that when michelangelo made this work it was the first time he ever touched marble and chisels suggesting in other words that the faun was michelangelo s initial effort in marble.
He treated the boy like a son. 1489 his first known work of sculpture in marble it was sculpted when he was 15 or 16 as a copy of an antique work with some minor alterations. The faun head figure of roman mythology is considered the first marble work sculpted by michelangelo buonarroti during his young age. He also had the opportunity to converse with the younger medici s.