米開朗基羅是個怎麼樣的人呢?

他是個相當多才多藝的人，身兼雕刻家、畫家、建築師、詩人等多重身分，他也是文藝復興時代著名的「天才型」藝術家之一，意指「全能」的藝術家。他的天份已經是到恐怖的地步，曾有個小故事足以證明：在雕刻大衛像之前，他細心選購適合雕刻的巨型石，當他發現一塊色澤美麗的巨石時，他將雙手放在石頭上，閉目沉思。
「大衛已經在裡面了，我現在要做的僅是把多餘的石材去除。」
我們都知道雕刻是相當難的技術，不僅考驗你的素描，也考驗你的空間的掌握力。一般人雕刻時均採最保險的方式，先把雛型確立，再一步步雕塑細部。可是天才米開朗基羅不是，他一刀下去，大衛的鼻子就出來了！你可以想像那是多麼可怕的天份，大衛真的已經是個活生生的人，他真的是從石塊裡「蹦」出來的！
另一件代表作奴隸系列也可看見米開朗基羅的功力。
還有第二個例子，米開朗基羅20多歲就以聖母哀子像聞名。因為實在是太過於傳神了，那石像彷彿是真人裹上石膏一般有血有肉。當時人不相信這是年輕的米開朗基羅所作，均謠傳此乃另一位老師父的作品。米開朗基羅一氣之下在聖母的肩帶上刻上自己的名字，自此再也沒人敢懷疑他的功力了！
再來就是著名的西斯丁大教堂壁畫。那也是夠嚇人的了！他為了向世人證明他也是個優秀的畫家，一人單挑整座教堂天花板，花了四年時間完成以舊約故事為題材的曠世巨作！
所以我只能跟你說他是天才中的天才！

別以為可竊居於博士級之名

別以為可竊居於博士級之名。

別以為可竊居於博士級之名。

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別以為可竊居於博士級之名。

別以為可竊居於博士級之名。

別以為可竊居於博士級之名。

別以為可竊居於博士級之名。

別以為可竊居於博士級之名。

別以為可竊居於博士級之名。

別以為可竊居於博士級之名。

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Michelangelo the man

Michelangelo, who was often arrogant with others and constantly dissatisfied with himself, saw art as originating from inner inspiration and from culture. In contradiction to the ideas of his rival, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo saw nature as an enemy that had to be overcome. The figures that he created are forceful and dynamic; each in its own space apart from the outside world. For Michelangelo, the job of the sculptor was to free the forms that were already inside the stone. He believed that every stone had a sculpture within it, and that the work of sculpting was simply a matter of chipping away all that wasn't a part of the statue.

Several anecdotes reveal that Michelangelo's skill, especially in sculpture, was greatly admired in his own time. It is said that when still a young apprentice, he had made a pastiche of a Roman statue (Il Putto Dormiente, the sleeping child or Cupid) of such beauty and perfection, that it was later sold in Rome as an ancient Roman original. In fact, he damaged the statue and buried it in order to fool the buyer, Cardinal Raffaele Riario. After the truth was revealed, the Cardinal later took this as proof of his skill and commissioned his Bacchus. Another better-known anecdote claims that when finishing the Moses (San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome), Michelangelo violently hit the knee of the statue with a hammer, shouting, "Why don't you speak to me?"