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Most likely it was difficult for Michaelangelo to get permission to paint female figures. What were the cultural attitudes towards that type of thing at the tim
by chrisco255 3y ago
Most likely it was difficult for Michaelangelo to get permission to paint female figures. What were the cultural attitudes towards that type of thing at the time? Renaissance probably had plenty of prudishness about that sort of thing, with women probably not considered proper to show much skin at all.
- gostsamo 3y agoEveryone else managed, as mentioned in the article. It was a deliberate choice.
- chrisco255 3y agoYeah it mentions Raphael's Catherine of Alexandria, yet the woman depicted is heavily clothed with no delts in sight: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Alexandria https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Alexandria
- gostsamo 3y ago> Pockets of Michelangelo’s artwork show that not all of his women possessed overt male qualities. He drew a female nude in preparation for his painting of the Entombment, and one need look no further than his sculpture of the Pietà to be persuaded that he could depict a woman with feminine attributes very convincingly. Instead of being for the sake of propriety or tradition, Michelangelo likely used male models and created masculine depictions intentionally.
- gowld 3y agoI also saw a woman naked once, 10 years ago. Doesn't mean I could accurately sculpt one today.
- frostburg 3y agoThey commonly hired prostitutes as models, it was a somewhat socially marginal occupation (which is funny because these people often were at one degree of separation from kings and popes, but it worked like that).