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Michelangelesque

Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling the works of the artist Michelangelo (1475-1564), characterised by passion, exceptional technical skill, and awe-inspiring grandeur.

Etymologies

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Michelangelo +‎ -esque

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Examples

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

    Letters LaFarge, Henry A. 1964

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

    The Getting of Wisdom 2003

  • Michelangelesque!” — little Bilham completed her meaning.

    The Ambassadors 2003

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

    A Room with a View 1924

  • 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 Cook, Herbert 1904

  • 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 Phillips, Claude 1897

  • 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 Scott, Leader, 1837-1902 1881

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

    Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation William Ernest Henley 1876

  • 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 John Addington Symonds 1866

  • 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 John Addington Symonds 1866

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