We've also been discussing Michelangelo in Aesthetics, and he's been giving us some interesting information. One trivia fact that Michelangelo was present and watching the unearthing of the Farnese Bull, which is a Roman copy of a massive, carved from a single block, Hellenistic sculpture. This sculpture is evidently a compositional marvel because it looks good from any angle. Also we have been discussing how he combined the restfullness of classicism with the turbulence of Hellenistic art. Wolflin when doing a formal analysis of the Sistine Chapel was the first to notice that all of figures have restful contours on one side, and then are turbulent on the other.
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