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Michelangelesque, a.|ˌmaɪkɪlændʒəˈlɛsk|
Also Michaelangelesque.
[f. the name of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564), a famous Italian artist: see -esque.]
Pertaining to or after the manner of Michelangelo.
1784J. Barry in Lect. Paint. iii. (1848) 133 The arm is a little too square and michelangelesque. 1845R. Ford Hand-bk. for Travellers Spain II. viii. 635/2 Two grand subjects in chiaro oscuro on a gilded ground..are quite Michael-Angelesque. 1856M. D. Wyatt in O. Jones Gram. Ornament xix. 4 Primaticcio, a master whose style of drawing was founded upon the Michael-Angelesque system of proportion. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 220 The Michael Angelesque olive-trunks. 1874E. Eastlake tr. Kugler's Handbk. Painting: Italian Schools (ed. 4) I. iv. i. 251 In addition to his larger Michael-Angelesque peculiarities Luca may be known by the squareness of his forms in joints and extremities. 1886Ruskin Præterita II. 50, I..progressed greatly and vitally in Michael-Angelesque directions. 1887Dowden Shelley II. v. 239 Visions..of Michelangelesque sublimity. 1903[see contrapposto]. 1932R. Fry Let. 10 Mar. (1972) II. 666 The cubico-Michelangelesque affair may best express the spirit of your house. 1934R. Campbell Broken Record iv. 84 He looked very Mosaic in the Michaelangelesque sense of the word. 1935Burlington Mag. June 278 Some Michaelangelesque drawings by Maurice Delacre. 1956K. Clark Nude iv. 134 The same Michelangelesque motive is used. 1963A. E. Elsen Rodin 55 The Michelangelesque motive of the right elbow crossed over to the left thigh..pleased the artist. 1970T. Hilton Pre-Raphaelites viii. 196 In such Michelangelesque subjects as The Wheel of Fortune, Burne-Jones's relations with the Italian masters were always to be uneasy.
So Micheˈlangelism, the manner or tendencies in art of Michelangelo.
1883C. C. Perkins Ital. Sculpture iii. iv. 350 The greater part of the sculpture..shuns the Scylla of nullity and bad taste only to fall into the Charybdis of Michelangelism. |