The Agony and the Ecstasy
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- 1965
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In eighteen months,
Michelangelo had transformed it to...
"The Giant of Florence":
"David".
No longer the meek shepherd,
David is shown...
at the moment of
his decision to fight.
And there is that other colossus...
originally intended
for the funeral monument...
of Pope Julius, the second...
described by a biographer as
"a better warrior than a Pope".
The "Moses".
So lifelike, says the legend...
that Michelangelo struck
its knee with a hammer...
crying:
"And now, speak!"Here, that glory of the
sculptor's art...
the famed "Pieta" of St. Peters...
now on exhibition at
the New York World's Fair.
Created by Michelangelo
when he was 23.
Finished, polished,
no detail untouched.
In striking contrast
to this "Pieta"...
known as the Rondanini and
considered the artist's testament.
At long intervals, for the last
eleven years of his life...
and up to the day of his death,
he worked on it.
Here Michelangelo is no longer
searching for beauty...
but the most profound sign
of suffering in man.
From the perfection of
the Piet of St. Peter's...
to this final achievement
with its unfinished stamp...
the arc of his life is spanned:
finally forced him...
to define the indefinable.
On the 18th of February, 1564...
not far from this square,
the Campidoglio...
which he had designed...
Michelangelo died at the age of 89.
Acclaimed by the world for
his titanic figures in marble...
frescoes on the ceiling...
of a chapel in the Vatican,
the Sistine Chapel...
the masterpiece of a sculpture...
who did not want to paint.
The Pope!
Your Holiness, a great victory.
A great day for Rome.
For the church.
In the name of the Holy Church,
I thank you.
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