Quotation of the Week #3
Michelangelo, Detail of the Last Judgment
“In painting, the idea is an image that the intellect of the
painter has to see with interior eyes in the greatest
silence and secrecy.”1
Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564)
Sculptor
1. Reported by Francisco da Hollanda and cited in Maria Ruvoldt, The Italian Renaissance Imagery of Inspiration: Metaphors of Sex, Sleep and Dreams (Cambridge University Press) 2004, p. 176
Posted 01 Oct 2011: MichelangeloTheoryVisual Perception
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