Michaelangelo
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Michelangelo was pessimistic in his poetry and an optimist in his artwork.
Michelangelo’s artwork consisted of paintings and sculptures that showed humanity in it’s
natural state. Michelangelo’s poetry was pessimistic in his response to Strazzi even
though he was complementing him. Mich ....
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tomb was to look like, since over the years it went through at least five conceptual
revisions. The tomb was to have three levels; the bottom level was to have sculpted
figures representing Victory and bond slaves. The second level was to have statues of
Moses and Saint Paul as well as symbolic figures of the active and contemplative life-
representative of the human striving for, and reception of, knowledge. The third level, it
is assumed, was to have an effigy of the deceased ....
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