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Title: "Fare una cosa morta parer viva": Michelangelo, Rosso, and the (un)divinity of art.(Rosso Fiorentino)
Author: Stephen J. Campbell
Publication: The Art Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2002
Publisher: College Art Association
Volume: 84 Issue: 4 Page: 596(25)Distributed by Thompson Gale

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... because painting comes from Shades, and Sculpture from Idols.--Anton Francesco Doni, 1549 (1)

Whenever (as very rarely happens) a great painter makes a work that seems false and deceitful, that falseness is truth, and greater truth in that place would be a lie.--attributed to Michelangelo (2) Michelangelo Buonarotti was not the first or the last artist to be called divine. (3) Yet from the close of the fifteenth century, the Florentine artistic culture from which Michelangelo emerged shows signs of a very particular preoccupation with the analogies between human making and the creative act of God. Whether implicitly or explicitly, artists claimed to provide at least the appearance of life or being, of a superhuman beauty generated...