Photography, Michelangelo and the “stone sickness” in his urine
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- Domenico Crespi known as Il Passignano ( Passignano 1559 – Florence 1638). Portrait of Michelangelo Buonarroti. Beginning of the seventeenth century. Oil on canvas.
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- Édouard -Denis Baldus ( Grünebach 1813 – Arcueil -Cachan 1889). Dying Slave, Michelangelo Buonarroti. 1854. Salted paper print from paper negative.
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- Édouard -Denis Baldus ( Grünebach 1813 – Arcueil -Cachan 1889). Chained slave, Michelangelo Buonarroti. 1854. Salted paper print from paper negative.
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- Paul Berthier (1822 – 1912). Tomb of Lorenzo de ‘ Medici, Michelangelo Buonarroti. 1855. Salted paper print from glass negative.
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- Medardo Rosso (Turin 1858 – Milan 1928). Montage of Madonna Medici, Michelangelo Buonarroti. 1901 approx. Aristotipo applied on rigid cardboard cut out by hand on all four sides.
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- Nicholò Cipriani (Ravenna 1892 – Florence 1968). Madonna and Child or Madonna of Bruges, Michelangelo Buonarroti. 1953 Fine art print on cotton paper from the original negative (2014) Florence, SPSAE Superintendent and the State Museums of Florence.
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- Jacques -Ernest Bulloz (Paris 1858-1942 ). The Dying Slave, Michelangelo Buonarroti. 1920 ca. Gelatin silver print. Florence, Biblioteca Berenson Photographic Archive , Villa I Tatti
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- Giuseppe Pagano (Parenzo / Porec 1896 – Mauthausen 1945). Palestrina Pietà : whole and details, Michelangelo Buonarroti. Rome 1938. Gelatin silver print. Florence, Biblioteca Berenson Photographic Archive , Villa I Tatti
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- Giuseppe Pagano (Parenzo / Porec 1896 – Mauthausen 1945). Palestrina Pietà : whole and details, Michelangelo Buonarroti. Rome 1938. Gelatin silver print. Florence, Biblioteca Berenson Photographic Archive , Villa I Tatti
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- Giuseppe Pagano (Parenzo / Porec 1896 – Mauthausen 1945). Palestrina Pietà : whole and details, Michelangelo Buonarroti. Rome 1938. Gelatin silver print. Florence, Biblioteca Berenson Photographic Archive , Villa I Tatti
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- Giuseppe Pagano (Parenzo / Porec 1896 – Mauthausen 1945). Palestrina Pietà : whole and details, Michelangelo Buonarroti. Rome 1938. Gelatin silver print. Florence, Biblioteca Berenson Photographic Archive , Villa I Tatti
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- Giuseppe Pagano (Parenzo / Porec 1896 – Mauthausen 1945). Palestrina Pietà : whole and details, Michelangelo Buonarroti. Rome 1938. Gelatin silver print. Florence, Biblioteca Berenson Photographic Archive , Villa I Tatti
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- Paolo Monti (Novara 1908 – Milano1982 ). Visitors in the hall of Rondanini Pieta, Michelangelo Buonarroti. Milan, Castello Sforzesco. 1956, and 1961. Two gelatin silver prints. Milan, Civic Stock Photo ( on loan from the Foundation BEIC ).
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- Paolo Monti (Novara 1908 – Milano1982 ). The Aurora , detail of the tomb of Lorenzo de ‘ Medici the late ’60s, Michelangelo Buonarroti. Gelatin silver print. Milan, Civic Stock Photo ( on loan from the Foundation BEIC )
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- Antonia Mulas ( Barbianello , Pavia 1939). Twilight , Night , Day , details, Michelangelo Buonarroti. 1978. Silver gelatin print on fiber paper stabilized selenium (2013). Todi, Antonia Mulas. Antonia Mulas Photography © all rights reserved
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- Antonia Mulas ( Barbianello , Pavia 1939). Twilight , Night , Day , details, Michelangelo Buonarroti. 1978. Silver gelatin print on fiber paper stabilized selenium (2013). Todi, Antonia Mulas. Antonia Mulas Photography © all rights reserved
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- Antonia Mulas ( Barbianello , Pavia 1939). Twilight , Night , Day , details, Michelangelo Buonarroti. 1978. Silver gelatin print on fiber paper stabilized selenium (2013). Todi, Antonia Mulas. Antonia Mulas Photography © all rights reserved
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- Horst P. Horst. (Weissenfels -an- der – Saale 1906 – Palm Beach Garden, Florida , 1999). Estrella Boissevan , photograph for Vogue , New York. September 13, 1938
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- Charles Rettrew jr. Sheeler ( Philadelphia 1883 – Dobbs Ferry , 1965) Cast of Giuliano de ‘ Medici by Michelangelo 1942 approx. Gelatin silver print New York, Lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art Gift of the artist 1943
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- Karen Knorr ( Frankfurt 1954). The Work of Art on the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 1986-1988. Print Cibachrome / Ilfochrome mounted on aluminum
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- Kim Ki- duk. ( Bonghwa 1960), pity, 2012. Lambda print (2014). Korea, KIM Ki- duk Film Production
Since it was born at the beginning of the nineteenth century, photography has been looking at Michelangelo Buonarroti’s three-dimensional masterpieces as a boundless source of beauty and inspiration.
From Eugène Piot, Édouard-Denis Baldus, or the Alinari brothers to Medardo Rosso, Henri Matisse and Carlo Mollino, artists have given their particular interpretation of the lights, shades, surfaces, volume of which Michelangelo’s sculptures are made of. Among the most recent readings we have those of Helmut Newton, Kim Ki Duk, Thomas Struth and Candida Höfer.
A selection of the best photos of Michelangelo’s marbles are now on show in the exhibition “Getting Reacquainted with Michelangelo” at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Florence (until 18 May). Rarely so many “visual” points of view on his work have been gathered together, representing the role the human body had played in his art: a sort of never ending conceptual leit motiv hidden between the real subject of each piece and his private life.
As historians have noted the artist’s body is at the centre of most of the letters Michelangelo wrote to his relatives. Among them is that to his nephew Lionardo Buonarroti, dated 23 March 1549, regarding his gallstone; a kind of illness he called, meaningfully, the “illness of stone”…
[…] io ti scrissi del mio male della pietra il quale è cosa crudelissima. Di poi sendomi stato dato da bere una certa aqqua, m’à fatto gittar tanta materia grossa e bianca per orina con qualche pezzo della scorza della pietra che io son molto migliorato
September 22, 2014
