Michelangeloesque

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1. alternativeAlternative form of Michelangelesque.

   This detail of a frieze in the New Sacristy is embellished with an idiosyncratic pattern that can be read as a series of grotesque human faces – a typical piece of Michelangeloesque wit and invention.

   2015, Dan Cruickshank, A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings, Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books, →ISBN, page 212

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   The group of Italy and Rome on the front of the pedestal, the lion of strength on the back, and the Michelangeloesque figure of the man freeing himself from the bonds of servitude, make up a striking whole.

   1897 September 4, Rodolfo Lanciani, “The Higher Life of Modern Rome”, in The Outlook, volume 57, number 1, New York, N.Y., page 27, column 1

   The bold elements of this composition include the tensely coiled serpent, the deep recession of both the boat and boatman, and the violent upward thrust of Thor, whose Michelangeloesque proportions seen from the low vantage point of the serpent itself endow him with a sense of Herculean strength.

   2007, Penelope J[ane] E[llis] Davies, Walter B[ell] Denny, Frima Fox Hofrichter, Joseph Jacobs, Ann M. Roberts, David L. Simon, Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition, 7th edition, volume II, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 808, column 1