Crucifix

If for Donatello form and reality had to unite in a figure that was the truest, for Michelangelo who grew in a humanistic culture of crisis, it was the conceptual form of truth that had to unite and live in the complex organics of reality. In the “Crucifix” dated 1494 and recently found by Margrit Lisner, classicism and neo-Gothic, earthly grace and mystic restlessness, the problematic nucleus of Florentine culture at the end of the century, are fused in a new canon of beauty.