Current Events > Michelangelo. What came to mind first?

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Pizza
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BuckVanHammer posted...

Pizza

Mmm
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The great artist, of course.
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the artist. guess I'm not a true 90's kid.
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Other: I knew these would be the 2 choices.
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King Rial posted...

The great artist, of course.

Yes, I love how he handles the nunchucks. It's like poetry in motion.
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Uncle Ben ribbing Peter in the first Spider Man movie.
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Kajagogo posted...

King Rial posted...

The great artist, of course.

Yes, I love how he handles the nunchucks. It's like poetry in motion.

Werent there two painters named Michelangelo? Or Im thinking of someone else?

I know there was a Renaissance Man, who I later found out that there were actually two of.
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DiCaprio
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Two_Dee posted...

DiCapriangelo

ftfy
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Flockaveli posted...

Werent there two painters named Michelangelo? Or Im thinking of someone else?

I know there was a Renaissance Man, who I later found out that there were actually two of.

There were a few, but Buonarroti is the main one.
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Flockaveli posted...

Werent there two painters named Michelangelo? Or Im thinking of someone else?

I think you could be thinking about Manet and Monet.
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The artist first. Raphael and Donatello would both make me think of the Ninja Turtle first though.
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I'm used to their nicknames, so I thought of the artist.

Zurkon posted...

The party dude.

Cowabunga!
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The turtle then the painter
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Sadly, the painter. I'm getting old.
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Both simultaneously.
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Surprised that many of you thought of the artist first!
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The artist, but mainly because he's more relevant to my interests. I actually got to see David in person 2 years ago too ^_^
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The Sistine Chapel or course.
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eston posted...

The artist, but mainly because he's more relevant to my interests. I actually got to see David in person 2 years ago too ^_^

Wow! Is it more impressive in person?
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Vol2tex posted...

Wow! Is it more impressive in person?

Very much so. The level of detail is insane
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microwavable food

Alphamon posted...

microwavable food

I like their eggplant parm
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@eston posted...

Vol2tex posted...

Wow! Is it more impressive in person?

Very much so. The level of detail is insane

Awesome. Sadly, not too many artists these days achieve a great level of detail but I really like this artist:

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"Hey, Michelangelo, don't forget, we're painting the kitchen tonight!"

That, and then the Sistine Chapel
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The story behind David is fascinating:

It was not only Agostino di Duccio who was overmatched the quarriers were, too. The block was 18 feet tall and something like 25,000 pounds. No one had harvested a stone this large in close to 1,000 years. The whole process was one ordeal after another. Because statuary marble tends to form up near the tops of mountains, it took months of labor to get it down to the quarry floor. The trip from Carrara to Florence an 80-mile journey that takes around two hours in a modern car took two more arduous years. There were teams of men, teams of oxen, big ocean ships, flat river barges, inclement weather, monthslong delays. At one point, the giant block fell into a muddy ditch and had to be laboriously extracted. One scholar has speculated that this accident caused the cracks that now plague the ankles.

When the block finally arrived in Florence, it was greeted as a wonder. Its size, to the public, would have been more apparent than its imperfections. It was deposited in a courtyard behind the cathedral a huge white apparition in the middle of the small brown city. People came from all over just to stare.

In the year 1501, amid fresh political spasms, the leaders of Florence decided to rehabilitate the Giant. But who could possibly save it? There was some talk of giving the project to Leonardo da Vinci, the citys (and Europes) reigning genius. But Leonardo was an intellectual, nearly 50 years old, who openly disdained the process of sculpture that sweaty blunt hacking at stone. In the end, the commission went to a less famous Florentine, Michelangelo Buonarroti, a 26-year-old eccentric who had just made his reputation in Rome by carving a marble Piet for St. Peters a statue of astonishing grace and maturity and polish. Michelangelo hurried home to take the commission.
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the story fits mikey too kinda, he's supposed to be the best turtle just unfocused.
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Pancake posted...

the story fits mikey too kinda, he's supposed to be the best turtle just unfocused.

Hmm. If I said Raphael the artist or Raphael the turtle, which would come to mind for you?
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Hmm. If I said Raphael the artist or Raphael the turtle, which would come to mind for you?

first raphael the artist, and then raphael the turtle.
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Pancake posted...

Hmm. If I said Raphael the artist or Raphael the turtle, which would come to mind for you?

first raphael the artist, and then raphael the turtle.

Maybe that will be my next topic then.
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The artist first, but the turtle immediately after.
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The creation of adam, so the artist.
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