Can he name any "Michelangelesque" statue of the second quarter of the sixteenth century that is less "Mannerist" than this statue?. From Wordnik.com. [Letters] Reference
“Michelangelesque!” — little Bilham completed her meaning. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
Michelangelesque picture in her brain: that of an old, old man with. From Wordnik.com. [The Getting of Wisdom] Reference
Michelangelesque, and the loss of it is therefore irreparable. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference
He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. From Wordnik.com. [Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation] Reference
"Is it worth it?" asked the other, Michelangelesque on the flooded margin. From Wordnik.com. [A Room with a View] Reference
Michelangelesque in style, and of consummate workmanship, still adorns the Duomo of Milan. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series] Reference
The result is a product of picturesque and plastic art as true to the Michelangelesque spirit as the Temple of the Wingless Victory to that of Pheidias. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference
Titanic Fopp, whose limbs are Michelangelesque in length; spectacled Morosani; the little tailor Kramer, with a French horn on his knees; the puckered forehead of the Baumeister; the. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series] Reference
I am willing to admit that the conception may have been Giorgione's, although even then it would stand alone as evidence of an imagination almost Michelangelesque in its terribilita. From Wordnik.com. [Giorgione]
A quiet, grassy spot dominated by a late - nineteenth - century statue of the scowling master seated on a pedestal and surrounded by bored - looking cherubs and twisting, heroic, winged Michelangelesque figures. From Wordnik.com. ['The Ninth'] Reference
In spite of its strongly marked Michelangelesque mannerism, both as regards feeling, facial type, and design, I cannot regard the bas-relief, in its present condition at least, as a genuine work, but rather as the production of some imitator, or the rifacimento of a restorer. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference
One will remember the disquieting power, the fascination in the true sense of the word, of Leonardo; the majesty, the penetration, the uncompromising realism on occasion, of Raphael; the happy mixture of the Giorgionesque, the Raphaelesque, and later on the Michelangelesque, in Sebastiano del Piombo. From Wordnik.com. [The Earlier Work of Titian]
Michelangelesque. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference
Michelangelesque in power. From Wordnik.com. [Fra Bartolommeo] Reference
"Michelangelesque!". From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
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