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Michelangelo (by Michelangelo): Self-portrait discovered hidden in his final painting

Michelangelo’s fresco showing the crucifixion of St Peter, painted at the Pauline Chapel in the Vatican City, contains a detail of the artist, inset top left, and was finished just before he died. Bottom left: Michelangelo Michelangelo?s fresco showing the crucifixion of St Peter, painted at the Pauline Chapel in the Vatican City, contains a detail of the artist, inset top left, and was finished just before he died. Bottom left: Michelangelo

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Michelangelo self-portrait

ricjones wrote:

Thursday, 2 July 2009 at 07:56 am (UTC)

Your caption to the close-up is in error when it says it was finished just before he died. The painting was completed before 1550. Michelangelo lived until 1564.

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rozr wrote:

Thursday, 2 July 2009 at 09:24 am (UTC)

I thought it had been worked out long ago that the figure at bottom right - the standing person in orange - was Miachaeangelo. I think that's far more likely than the solider. So I still need to be convinced of this change of perception.

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Powerful

brinksman wrote:

Thursday, 2 July 2009 at 09:41 am (UTC)

Even in such a cynical world, moments like this go straight to the very heart.
www.millarcrime.com

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mike by mike

mikel_angelo1 wrote:

Thursday, 2 July 2009 at 02:27 pm (UTC)

when the Vatican cleaned all the frescoes they were shocked at the brilliant colors, blurred by years of incense, we'd all been shown the paintings as dull in hue. Recent research on ancient Roman statuary shows that they, also, were painted in bright colors, though we always considered them white because the paint had washed away. So, the conclusion is that Michelangelo KNEW the ancient Roman statues were painted in bright colors AND was simply following the classical example ! voila!

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Mich

kgsved wrote:

Thursday, 2 July 2009 at 03:13 pm (UTC)

Maybe Michelangelo painted himself several times in the crowd to show him as both a spectator, a participant, and a mourner of St/ Peter's execution... like in some way, all of us...

concept?

kgs

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michelangelo

paulsimax wrote:

Thursday, 2 July 2009 at 09:03 pm (UTC)

what he think of people who throw paint on the floor and call themselves artists?

p. bloomberg
old man
glendale,ca

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self portraits by Michelangelo

ronan_sulich wrote:

Friday, 3 July 2009 at 12:42 am (UTC)

He was well known for depicting himself in his works, what about the self protrait in the flayed skin of St Bartholemew in the Last Judgement, and the figure of Nicodemus in the Rondanini Pieta?

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