Michelangelos Drawings: Mind of the Master
b'"You have all these incredibly powerful people across Italy, all writing to Michelangelo and saying, \'Please, please, pretty please, can I have one of your drawings?\' And, you know, Michelangelo never obliged them."\\n\\n\\n\\nMichelangelo is among the most influential and impressive artists of the Italian High Renaissance. His lifelike sculptures and powerful paintings are some of the most recognizable works in Western art history. He also drew prolifically, making sketch after sketch of figures in slightly varying poses, focusing on form and gesture. However, remarkably few of these drawings remain today, many of them burned by the artist himself, others lost or damaged over the centuries.\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\nA recent exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Michelangelo: Mind of the Master, brought together more than two dozen of Michelangelo\\u2019s surviving drawings\\u2014including designs for the Sistine Chapel ceiling and The Last Judgment\\u2014to shed light on the artist\\u2019s creativity and working method. In this episode, co-curators of this exhibition, Julian Brooks and Edina Adam, discuss the master and what we can learn from his works on paper. \\n\\n\\n\\nFor images, transcripts, and more, visit getty.edu/podcasts.'