Old Master enthusiasts in the NYC area might have found themselves a tad crestfallen in regards to the exhibition of Michelangelo drawings up at Syracuse University this fall.
A trip that far up North would have been a stretch, even for the most virtuous of Renaissance masters. Fret not, however, as SU has done many of us a solid by staging the exhibition at its residence on the Upper East Side. Fourteen precious works by the master are on display, over half of which are making their US debut.
Drawings shows can be dull. But these are drawings by Michelangelo. Therefore, you might want to make this more than just a priority if you have some free time in NYC during the next couple of months.
Rare Michelangelo Show Comes to N.Y. With Financier’s Funding [Lindsay Pollock, Bloomberg]
“Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth,” exhibition website [Syracuse University]
More discussion on Michelangelo:
How Every Painter paints himself: Michelangelo [Art Scholar]
An insightful investigation of the master’s oeuvre reveals self-portraits in many works, namely in the Last Judgement frescoe. Michelangelo’s hidden face in the torso of St. Peter underscores the anthrocentric principles of the Renaissance, whereupon, in the words of Art Scholar:
“only self-knowledge is true knowledge and that reality is inside our minds, not out. The unique worldview of a human being is proof that “each of us is in the image of God…a mirror of the cosmos.”
