Tag: Art history
Beauty in bursting color at MIA
The current exhibit of works by Ferdinand Delacroix and artists who flattered him by mimicking his style is worth a trip to the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Art historian explores Michelangelo’s ‘masculine’ women
Strong shoulders, thick legs, defined muscles. The attributes were true of Michelangelo’s depictions of men, but also many of his women. In the past century, art historians have theorized that Michelangelo — creator of the world’s most famous Pieta, the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling and Last Judgment frescoes, and Florence’s David — masculinized the female form because he was a product of a patriarchal society that denigrated women, or because he found men more beautiful.
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