Tag: Michelangelo
Okuizomo, a town in Japan, has an art problem. They really appreciate the replica of Michelangelo’s David donated by a local businessman, but because of the statue’s lack of clothes, the citizens’ feathers are a little ruffled. There’s also a Venus de Milo replica, and it’s near a playground for children. That seems like an […]
La Pietà Rondanini, a sculture Michelangelo worked on for 12 years and still left unfinished when he died in 1564, is going to jail — for now. Despite some “vociferous opposition” from art historians, the Milanese culture commissioner has ordered to move the work from it’s swank home at the Castello Sforzesc where 350,000 visitors […]
