Christie's to auction Michelangelo drawing will be
Michelangelo
Sketch for fresco" Battle of the Cascine. Around 1504
Pencil on paper. 21.6 x 17,8
Christie's. 05.07.2011
Estimate: 3-5 million pounds
Source:
at auction Christie's «Old Masters and Art of the XIX century" on July 5 in London, exhibited a rare drawing by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564).
This is a sketch for a fresco "Battle of the Cascine, which was to decorate the walls of the Hall five hundred Florentine Palazzo Vecchio (then was known as the Palazzo della Signoria). Michelangelo never completed murals, ordered the head of Signoria Piero Soderini about 1504. Was over her cardboard, but it survived only in later copies of other artists. Original sketches by Michelangelo to the "Battle of Kashin" retained only 24 and this figure was assigned to the master last. Besides, he only remains in private ownership. His exposed once - in 2010 at an exhibition of graphics by Michelangelo in the Viennese Albertina Museum. The work does not change the owner last 30 years, first exhibited at a public auction with the estimate 5.3 million pounds (4,6-7,5 million dollars).
This sketch was made by Michelangelo most likely in late 1504, shortly after receiving an order for a fresco from Soderini. It is obvious that when you create the figure of the artist was not yet final composite design murals, he is looking for the right poses for the figures. Figure two-sided: on the obverse the naked man from behind, on the reverse side are three sketches of male figures, almost finding each other.
in the Palazzo della Signoria by Michelangelo in the first and last time he worked alongside Leonardo da Vinci, which is on the opposite wall of the hall five hundred painted his mural "The Battle of Anghiari." The latter, unfortunately, not preserved. Today, about how she should look like, we can learn in later copies from the original cardboard.
Michelangelo was a master of images of naked human body. Selected artist episode of the Battle of Kashin (1364) - when pizantsy suddenly attacked bathers in the river Florentine soldiers - has allowed him to demonstrate his outstanding knowledge of anatomy.
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