Michelangelesque

• “Can he name any "Michelangelesque" statue of the second quarter of the sixteenth century that is less "Mannerist" than this statue?”

  Letters

• “Michelangelesque picture in her brain: that of an old, old man with”

  The Getting of Wisdom

• ““Michelangelesque!” — little Bilham completed her meaning.”

  The Ambassadors

• “Is it worth it?" asked the other, Michelangelesque on the flooded margin.”

  A Room with a View

• “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.”

  Giorgione

• “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.”

  The Earlier Work of Titian

• “No. 8, the Baptism of the Gentiles, is another of his best style, and is, in the drawing of the nude figures, almost Michelangelesque in power.”

  Fra Bartolommeo

• “He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness.”

  Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation

• “Michelangelesque in style, and of consummate workmanship, still adorns the Duomo of Milan.”

  Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III

• “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”

  Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III

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