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Essay-Review: 'Divine Lust' - On the supreme artistry of Michelangelo - by Andrew Butterfield 

Essay-Review: 'Divine Lust' - On the supreme artistry of Michelangelo - by Andrew Butterfield  | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
In a career lasting more than seventy years Michelangelo reigned supreme in every art: sculpture, painting, architecture, drawing, poetry. So absolute was his mastery, and so Olympian were his creations, that he seemed more than mortal to his contemporaries. They called him “divine,” said his works were the most sublime ever made, even greater than those of antiquity, and used a new term, terribilità, to describe the awesome majesty of his art.
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The Book under review, ''Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer' allows the viewer to begin to see the passion, melancholy, fear, and frustration that drove the artist.
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Appreciation: Poet e. e. cummings’s Long-Forgotten Artist’s Book

Appreciation: Poet e. e. cummings’s Long-Forgotten Artist’s Book | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Published in 1931, CIOPW includes 99 examples of Cummings's visual art in charcoal, ink, oil, pencil, and watercolor.
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