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Episode #4: The Problem of Michelangelo's Women (Season 1, Episode 4)
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:33:49
Publish Date: 2016-09-26 00:13:56
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There are lots of questions that come up in every art history classroom. We hear them over and over again. What is art, really, and how can you define it? Why is the Mona Lisa smiling? What happened to the Winged Victory's arms? And then there's one that you'll hear, or that you'll even think yourself, especially if you are a fan or scholar of Renaissance art.  Why, people ask. Why are Michelangelo's women so... un-womanly?

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Want even MORE information? Check out the links below:

Jill Burke's blog: Men With Breasts (Or Why Are Michelangelo's Men So Muscular?) Part 1

Jill Burke's blog: Men With Breasts (Or Why Are

Michelangelo's Men So Muscular?) Part 2

Jacopino del Conte, Portrait of Michelangelo at 60, after 1535
Michelangelo, David, 1501-1504, Galleria dell'Accademia
Michelangelo, Pietà - 1499-1500, Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome
Michelangelo, Madonna with child, 1501-1504, Onze-Lieve-Vrouwkerk, Bruges, Belgium
Michelangelo, Bacchus, 1496–1497, Bargello, Florence, Italy
Michelangelo, Cumaen Sibyl from the Sistine Chapel Ceiling, painted 1508-1512
Michelangelo, Libyan Sibyl from the Sistine Chapel Ceiling, painted 1508-1512
Michelangelo, Studies for the Libyan Sibyl, ca. 1510–11, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Michelangelo, the Temptation of Adam and Eve from the Sistine Chapel Ceiling, painted 1508-1512
Michelangelo, Doni Tondo, c. 1503–6. Uffizi, Florence, Italy
Raphael, St. Catherine of Alexandria, 1508, National Gallery, London, U.K.
Michelangelo, Study of a Nude Woman, Musée du Louvre, France
Michelangelo, Tomb of Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici with Night and Day, 1533, Florence, Italy
Detail of Night
Michelangelo, Tomb of Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici with Dusk and Dawn, 1533, Florence, Italy
Detail of Dawn
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