Michelangelo's Statues or Dutch Nobodies? |
One glance suggests that these are not run of the mill statues by a lesser sculptor, but hey that's what the expert scholars thought, so who was to argue.
The Sorcerers Apprentices Work Proved Decisive |
The similarity is striking, especially the panther and its tail ...... from then on it took a team of 21st century experts to eventually conclude that the teams of 20th century experts were wrong, and that the 19th century experts were right and had known what they were doing all along.
Roll on the 22nd century, when no doubt another bunch of historical revisionism experts will cast their gimlet eyes over everything held to be true this century and attribute these statues to some obscure Italian artisan. Such is the crazy world of the art experts ..... what ever happened to appreciating 'Art For Arts Sake' ... now its 'Money for Gods Sake'.
These statues are apparently now masterpieces, whereas just a few weeks ago they were the work of the obscure Dutch sculptor, Willem Danielsz Van Tetrode, and not masterpieces .... the difference, just a name.
Michelangelo : there's a guy who always knew where his towel was!
ReplyDeleteNice pair, no doubt a statement about man's dominance over the animal Kingdom.
Actually I suspected it was an early model for 'He Man' and 'Battle Cat' made for the Masters of the Universe franchise
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