Michelangelo considered himself primarily a sculptor we find out how he could also have found fame as a poet.
Michelangelo said ‘I paint with my brains, not with my hands’ – a dictum that is reflected in every aspect of his work. This talk covers his main works and artistic achievements in a comprehensive way - but also brings in some entirely original ideas and interpretations of my own that I have published internationally. Famous for his frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, and also known as an architect, Michelangelo considered himself primarily as a sculptor, his overarching aim being the search for perfection in the artistic reproduction of the human form. His poetic output was also significant and in fact he would have found fame as a poet had he never produced any art or architecture at all.
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Valerie Shrimplin
Valerie is an honorary Research Associate at Gresham College London (previously Registrar and Secretary of the College). Having studied at the Universities of Bristol, Manchester and the Witwatersrand, she has lectured extensively on Byzantine, Medieval and Renaissance art and architecture and published widely on the influence of astronomy and cosmology on art (including her PhD on the influence of Copernican heliocentricity on Michelangelo’s Sistine Last Judgment). After her main career in education management, she now works freelance, in order to pursue her writing and research (see: www.valerieshrimplin.com). She is former Chair of the series of Conferences on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena (www.insap.org). Author of many publications.
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