Painted sculpture

The custodian gone in the Sistine chapel, and he gazed a weak light on scaffolding, and he very worry, loud asked: “Who is there?”, nothing answer, hence he get up on the staircase and came to the point where the light was strong; he asked newly: “Who are you”, to a man that was from behind, dressed with  white cloth, Michelangelo, that while was arrived to scaffolding with custodian, asked newly: “Who are you? Answer and stop”, and the unknown turned toward Michelangelo and he shown his face, he was the pope Julius 2th(1443-1513), the client of this fresco, when Michelangelo has ascertained that he was the pope, he soon excused and justified his behavior, but the pope: “I was specking to your Adam”, in fact the pope was gazing to high, although  the distance was very minimal, but Julius 2th has laid a pillow under his head, and he is debating to Adam of Creation of man(Fig.1), and Adam answered to a question of Julius, and Michelangelo interrupted and he tried intervene, and Adam sharply stopped him: “You must shut, because now I am speaking!”, and Michelangelo shut immediately, thereupon Adam, continuing the discourse: “You dear pope asked because I am so statuary, because who has painted my figure is a sculptor, and he has a culture that is of sculptor, in fact also other figures, as Prophets(Figs.2-4) are statuary, and we drown so, as you have seen on drawings(Figs.5-6), and the idea of posture of your Moses(Fig.7) is from directly from posture of a prophet(Fig.4).”, and Julius answered: “But the posture of Moses to my funeral monument is different, and…”, Adam hence interrupted: “The idea; because Michelangelo has took the suggestion, he has sculpted Moses, didn’t copied!” and Julius: “I have seen the drawings and the figures are dynamic, what do you think?”, and Adam: “The figures are dynamic certainly and realistic in the nature”, and Julius: “Why”, and Adam “Because my finger and the finger of God are very near one to other, but Michelangelo has took a moment before the touch occurs, it is note of realism”(Fig.8), and Julius: “I haven’t understood it”; and Adam: “When you extend your hand to somebody, you don’t see the gesture because it is natural, and daily, but if a photographer is photographing your gesture, he stopped every moment of your movement, and after he can picks the better photo, but he has stopped every moment, whereby these movement is natural”, and Julius: “can we judge Michelangelo naturalist?”, and Adam: “For something very short is possible, but what is predominant is classicism, this is the ideal form both men and women, but the natural form is in style of every painter or sculptor, also to more classicist artist, because it is the reality from an artist must starts, inevitable, because every artist has copied the true models, and he has drawn the reality, after during his growth he can chooses his style, that to Michelangelo is classic and modestly also natural, but very low”, and Julius: “Are classic or naturalistic?”, and Adam: “I am entirely classic, because my posture is from a figure of classic rivers(Figs.9-10), but he has painted it in conformity of his style, this is classic, but the reaction of Christ in the Universal judge(Fig.11), is natural certainly, a gesture of anger, but mixed to classic body, but the gesture is natural”, and Julius: “I have understood”, and the guardian that was stretched near to Julius: “I also, thank you” and turned to Julius, he asked: “Do you have paid the ticket?”, Julius: “No I have paid the salary to your you forefathers, and stop.”

Alessandro Lusana     

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