Reading Michelangelo , I understand who wrote Michelangelo

This quote comes from "Michelangelo" by the French writer Romain Rolland.

Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866 – December 30, 1944) was a thinker, writer, critical realist writer, critic, social activist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915, and a famous French humanitarian writer in the first half of the 20th century.

Writing features: Roland wrote heroic biographies in order to forge himself and to comfort his unknown brothers in suffering: "Great hearts are like mountain winds that strike them, and clouds entangle them, but there they breathe more vigorously than elsewhere." There is a purity in the air that removes the stain of the soul.

The preface to his Biography of Beethoven is like a flag: "The air around is oppressive, and old Europe is suffocated in a stuffy and filthy atmosphere." There is no great utilitarianism that suppresses the mind – the world is weakened by shrewd, wait-and-sell selfishness. The world is so breathless that open the window and burn!

Let's let in the air of freedom. Let the hearts of the heroes breathe. ”

Representative works are: 1. David: Marble statue, like a meter high, with a pedestal high meter, created in 1501 A.D. and 1504, now in the collection of the State Nian Florence Academy of Fine Arts.

2. Slaves in bondage: Marble sculpture, 215 cm high, created by Michelangelo in 1513 and 1516, now in the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.

3. Moses: Marble statue, 255 cm high, created by Michelangelo in 1515 1516 AD, now located in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican in Rome (the actual existence of St. Peter's shackled church "Saint Peter in Chains" in Rome).

4. Bust of Brutus: marble statue, 74 cm high, created by Michelangelo in 1537 1538 AD, now in the collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Florence.

5. The dying slave: a marble sculpture, 229 cm high, now in the Louvre Museum in Paris. "The Bound Slave" is clearly a different style compared to "The Dying Slave".

The arrogant and selfish Pope ordered Michelangelo to cast a bronze statue for him, but Michelangelo's main job and skill was sculpture, and he did not know how to cast bronze statues, so he had to relearn and work in bronze casting day and night, for which Michelangelo suffered a lot.

Michelangelo was not only tormented by the loneliness and melancholy in his own heart, but also attacked and framed by villains. During the casting of the bronze statue, he shared a bed with two other people involved in the work, and unexpectedly, the two partners stole his scum, and in a fit of rage, he kicked the two men out of the group.

Before the matter was over, the two men began to spread rumors around the city, trying to take the credit for the bronze casting for themselves, and even falsely accusing Michelangelo of stealing their belongings, but to no avail. Shamefully demanded money from Michelangelo's father.

To Michelangelo's despair, the coppersmith he hired was a useless man, and the coppersmith had failed and everything would start over. Michelangelo worked even more day and night, without even eating, sleeping only a few hours a day, and his health was severely impaired.

Leaving aside Michelangelo's genius, his life was either lonely and melancholy for himself, or suffering for enemies and villains. Of course, his pain is tied to his genius. With his artistic talent, he is arrogant, has an almost crazy enthusiasm for art, especially sculpture, and disdains to make friends and manage contacts, and is a typical person with high IQ and low emotional intelligence.

In the era of social turmoil in the Renaissance, his timid personality left him with only loneliness and melancholy. All those who appreciate him are just squeezing the surplus value of his artistic creation, treating him with care when he can use it, and discarding it when he can't use it as if he were a shoe.

Reading notes: Romain Rolland's "Biography of Famous People" - a fragment of Michelangelo's tragic situation.

Michelangelo is a great painter, sculptor, architect and poet of the Italian Renaissance, and a representative of the highest peak of Renaissance sculpture art. Together with Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci, they are known as the three masters of the post-Renaissance. His most famous paintings are the Genesis zenith painting and the fresco The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican.

Born in Florence in 1475. The great painter, sculptor, architect and poet of the Italian Renaissance, the representative of the highest peak of Renaissance sculpture art. Together with Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci, they are known as the Three Masters of the Renaissance.

As a great master of the Renaissance, his magnificent works that transcend time and space have had an unparalleled and huge impact on both his life and future generations. He was as versatile as Leonardo da Vinci, a sculptor, painter, architect and poet. He was blessed to live to the age of 89, surpassing the age of antiquity, and spent more than 70 years of his artistic career, he experienced the ups and downs of life and the hot and cold state of the world, so that the works he left in his life are full of dramatic effects, majestic momentum and human tragedy.

Michelangelo Bonarroti (foreign name: Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni), born on March 6, 1475 in Florence, Italy, was a great painter, sculptor, architect and poet of the Italian Renaissance, and a representative of the highest peak of Renaissance sculpture art.

He pursued the perfection of art all his life, insisted on his own artistic ideas, and was known as the three masters of the Renaissance together with Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci, also translated as "Michelangelo" and "Michael Angelo".

His works are known for their "bodybuilding" figures, and even women's bodies are depicted with muscular strength. His sculpture "David" is world-famous, and the most famous paintings are the ceiling painting of Genesis and the fresco "The Last Judgment" in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican.

He died in Rome in 1564 and his style influenced artists for almost three centuries. Asteroid 3001 was named after him as a sign of posterity's respect for him.

Romain Rolland wrote "The Biography of Michelangelo", which is included in the "Biography of Famous People". Michelangelo is the author of David, the Book of Genesis.

Work non-stop all your life, persevere, don't give up, and be strict with yourself.