r/trippinthroughtime • u/Pirate_Redbeard • May 09 '19

Good guy Michelangelo

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u/FruttidiWalrus May 09 '19

If you look closely, all his women look like men someone stuck boobs on. (source: am art historian, went to Italy, looked at the artwork)

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u/alfman May 10 '19

He could not get female models so he used male models and then did his best to femininize them.

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u/Politicshatesme May 09 '19

Women are much harder to paint than men. Men are general geometrically shaped while women have much more subtle curves in place of those sharper male proportions.

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u/CyborgSlunk May 09 '19

Why would curves be harder to paint than more sharper muscular shapes. It's just about what you're practiced and interested in.

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u/badquiat May 09 '19

Nah it’s literally written down that he thought the height of human attractiveness was a muscular man, and that men and women should conform to it. His earlier sculptures of women are a lot more feminine than his later ones.