“Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.” – Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)…
Michelangelo’s influence on Western art is heralded as unparalleled, and we wouldn’t even have #ModernArt today without his input, no matter how discordant our worlds of now and then may seem. But is #Michelangelo in fact overrated, and his relevance somewhat limited outside of the artistic and creative realms, especially in comparison to other more astute masters like Da Vinci? Michelangelo was almost as much an attention-seeker, a performer, as much as a fine artist. He gave the people what they wanted, opening unto himself the doors of the greatest fame but also limiting himself somewhat ideologically and creatively… Have the corrupt shadows of the Catholic world tragically engulfed his buzzy legacy, which was specially launched by the Medici-governed Renaissance Florentine elite to be universally transcendent? As Voltaire said: “Life is too short, time too valuable, to spend it on what is useless.” – once and for all eruditely consolidating or politically undermining the hegemony of Michelangelomania?
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