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Through the exhibit, you can see changes in Michelangelo as a man, and some of the core artistic elements that remained stable.
Hugo Chapman
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He wouldn't have been pleased to see us surveying his working drawings. Michelangelo just wanted you to look at his finished work and be overwhelmed by it and not realize that it's the result of thousands of decisions.
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Michelangelo would have hated this exhibition. He wouldn't have wanted us to understand how he worked. He wanted us to go into the Sistine chapel and be amazed.
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His drawings of the male nude are incredibly sensual. You get the feeling of his hand all over the body. If all we knew about Michelangelo was his drawings, he would still be hailed as a genius.
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He was working unbelievably hard...but he didn't want anybody to know that. He didn't want people to know how much effort went into his art, but that is what the drawings show.
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