{"id":247,"date":"2012-02-12T20:17:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T01:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2012-02-12T20:21:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T01:21:28","slug":"michelangelos-non-finito-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/michelangelos-non-finito-sculptures\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelangelo&#8217;s Non-finito Sculptures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Michelangelo is best known for masterpieces such as his\u00a0<em>David<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Pieta,<\/em>\u00a0among the most compelling products of Michelangelo&#8217;s sculptural output, and those which most strongly symbolize the Neo-Platonic theme of the struggle to transcend physical form (alluded to in the poems), are the\u00a0<em>non-finito<\/em>\u00a0(unfinished) sculptures \u2013 particularly\u00a0<em>St. Matthew<\/em>\u00a0and the Slaves (works that were a major influence on Auguste Rodin).<\/p>\n<p>These are vague, faceless figures that appear to be struggling to emerge from masses of marble. It is debated whether or not Michelangelo left them intentionally unfinished, but either way these are striking examples of the outstanding characteristics of Michelangelo&#8217;s art: dynamic, overwhelming strength veiled in melancholic beauty. This was the vision I had in mind as I searched for the mood and language of my music in\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/nell-shaw-cohen-revealed-in-stone-2009-inspired-by-the-poetry-and-art-of-michelangelo\">Revealed in Stone<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/beyondthenotes.org\/artmusic\/stone\/images\/michelangelo-young%20slave.jpg\" alt=\"Michelangelo, Young Slave\" width=\"247\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Young Slave<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/beyondthenotes.org\/artmusic\/stone\/images\/michelangelo-awakening_slave.jpg\" alt=\"Michelangelo, Awakening Slave\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Awakening Slave<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/beyondthenotes.org\/artmusic\/stone\/images\/michelangelo-st_matthew.jpg\" alt=\"Michelangelo, St. Matthew\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>St. Matthew<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Related Topics:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"An Introduction to Michelangelo\u2019s Poetry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/an-introduction-to-michelangelos-poetry\/\">An Introduction to Michelangelo&#8217;s Poetry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/nell-shaw-cohen-revealed-in-stone-2009-inspired-by-the-poetry-and-art-of-michelangelo\">Nell Shaw Cohen, Revealed in Stone (2009) Inspired by the Poetry and Art of Michelangelo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Michelangelo is best known for masterpieces such as his\u00a0David\u00a0and\u00a0Pieta,\u00a0among the most compelling products of Michelangelo&#8217;s sculptural output, and those which most strongly symbolize the Neo-Platonic theme of the struggle to transcend physical form (alluded to in the poems), are the\u00a0non-finito\u00a0(unfinished) sculptures \u2013 particularly\u00a0St. Matthew\u00a0and the Slaves (works that were a major influence on Auguste [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,28],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-renaissance","tag-michelangelo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}