Crouching Boy Automatic translate

Michelangelo Buonarroti is one of the greatest personalities of the High Renaissance. He was born in a poor family and learned to work with a chisel and clay earlier than literacy. Michelangelo was both a sculptor and architect, poet and artist. But sculpture for him has always been in the first place. He left the greatest legacy to the descendants.

One of the many creations of the famous master is the Crouched Boy. This magnificent sculpture is not completed: if you look closely, you can see that the feet, hands and face are only outlined, and the legs, pelvis and back are fully completed. Why didn’t the master finish the sculpture? There are many versions. The most commonplace is that Michelangelo was simply busy with other work. But it is too simple. Most likely, the master did it on purpose: in this way he embodied his view of art.

Citizens of Russia have the opportunity to see the creation of the great master live, since the Crouched Boy is currently in the Hermitage, where he ended up in 1851. And children can “get acquainted” with the “Crouching Boy” during school tour to Peter for example .

Before getting to Russia, the sculpture has come a long way. The nephew of Michelangelo Leonardo handed the statue to the Duke Cosimo, from the collection of which she got to Laid Brown. Then Brown’s collection was acquired by Catherine the Great, who first placed the great work of art in the Grotto of Tsarskoye Selo. And only then, "Crouched Boy" was at its final destination, i.e. in the Hermitage.

In the Renaissance, such sculptures were usually made of white marble. But the boy is made of stone with many inclusions and veins. Why did Michelangelo choose such a material? Perhaps the reason is that in Florence at that time, first-class marble was impossible to get. And it may be that for a master like Buonarroti, the material was not important.

Michelangelo made the “Crouching Boy” immediately from marble, i.e. he did not initially make a clay model, as is usually the case. The boy’s head drooped, his shoulders were bent, even his spirit seemed to be broken. There is an explanation for this: Michelangelo worked on the sculpture during the terror that covered Florence when it lost its independence. Naturally, the master could not but embody his tragic sensations in his work.

But you can’t tell a lot of things in words, you need to see it with your own eyes, so we are asking for favors in St. Petersburg!