Avenues to Success for 10/07/08

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

       - Michelangelo, 1475-1564,Italian painter and sculptor

Self-Portrait

Source: Michelangelo.com

One of my favorite movies is The Agony and Ecstasy based on the biographical novel by Irving Stone.

Here are a few more sites about Michelangelo:

Michelangelo Buonarroti - New Advent (Catholic Encyclopedia)

Michelangelo was a man of many-sided character, independent and persistent in his views and his endeavours. His most striking characteristic was a sturdy determination, guided by a lofty ideal.Untiring, he worked until far advanced in years, at the cost of great personal sacrifices.  ...

Biography of Michelangelo - Web Gallery

This site has links to his works in the text, for example: In Rome he carved the first of his major works, the Bacchus (Florence, Bargello) and the St Peter's Pietà, which was completed by the turn of the century. It is highly finished and shows that he had already mastered anatomy and the disposition of drapery, but above all it shows that he had solved the problem of the representation of a full-grown man stretched out nearly horizontally on the lap of a woman, the whole being contained in a pyramidal shape. ...

Michelangelo Paints the Sistine Chapel - Eyewitness to History

... By 1508 the artistic community of Rome (including the painter Raphael and Donato Bramante, architect of St. Peters) felt so threatened by Michelangelo's mercurial rise to fame that they devised a plot intended to discredit and degrade the young artist. They would persuade Pope Julius II to have Michelangelo paint the ceiling of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. They were convinced that the young sculptor, who had never attempted a fresco before, would inevitably fail or, at the very least, become embroiled in a time consuming effort that would remove him from the competition for years. ...

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