Michelangelo Buonarroti
Moses
Here the "concetto" is completely liberated from the marble, as in the David and the figures in the Medici Chapel, but one might say that the terrible emotional intensity of being "unfinished" continues, as it does in Donatello, to vibrate in the completed form, in the revealed image. The classical idealization of the facial features is overcome by an intensity of inner emotion that has no need of expressive explanations.
How to cite
Bruno Balestrini (photograph), “Moses”, work by Michelangelo Buonarroti, Renaissance Sculpture, Rome, San Pietro in Vincoli. Bruno Balestrini Photographic Archive, https://brunobalestrini.org/cita/sch00027/. Accessed [date accessed].