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Nov 3 / 3:21pm

Buffy Vs Edward mashup

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Nov 1 / 8:15pm

Burlesque

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Oct 27 / 4:12pm

Comments and corrections

I choose this piece because the fined of a new Michelangelo is very exciting to me, especially   because my field of study is finding, authenticating, and restoring pieces of art. This is an article about a man and his family that have been possession of a unfinished Michelangelo. I did not make any corrections to this piece because this is more of a news article so anything added was just a comment I did a mix of funny sarcastic comments and general information about Michelangelo and his Pieta pieces.  

C1,C3,C6,C7: are all comments about Michelangelo and The Pieta sculpture.

C2,C4,C5,C8,: are more sarcastic comments about wording and mental imaging

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Oct 27 / 4:10pm

Cassandra Karas

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10/26/10

Lost Michelangelo Found in Buffalo

Submitted by Joan R. Neubauer on 2010-10-12

The great artist Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) gave the world such masterpieces as the Sistine Chapel, the Pietá[C1] , and David. Born in 1475, he died in 1564, [C2] 446 years ago. So no one ever thought they’d see a new Michelangelo, until Italian art historian and restorer Antonio a Forcellino laid eyes on the painting in Buffalo, New York.

When owner, 53-year old Martin Kober showed the painting to Forcellino, the unfinished painting of Jesus and Mary[C3] , he couldn’t believe his eyes. Similar to other paintings by the great master, Forcellino said, "This painting was even more beautiful than the versions hanging in Rome and Florence.”

The painting had hung on the living-room wall of the Kober family for years.

Everyone just referred to it as "The Mike." Then, one of the kids knocked it off the wall with a tennis ball, and as a result, the Kobers wrapped it up and put behind the sofa [C4] for safe keeping, and there it stayed for the next 27 years.

When Air Force Lt. Col. Martin Kober retired in 2003, his father said, “Now, with your newfound free time, do something with this!" And he took on the job of researching the family story surrounding the painting.

Kober, now 53, took on the task and researched the history of the painting. He contacted auction houses, Renaissance art scholars, European archives, and even met with museum directors in Italy. He eventually found Antonio Forcellino and told him the story of the painting. [C5] 

Forcellino said, "It wasn't the story that had scared me, but that it had been exposed to heating commonly found inside a middle-class home,” wrote in his new book, La Pieta Perduta, The Lost Pietá. Besides, he didn’t really believe in the existence of another rendition of a painting that already hung in museums. "I had assumed it was going to be a copy.

"In reality, this painting was even more beautiful than the versions hanging in Rome and Florence. The truth was this painting was much better than the ones they had. I had visions of telling them that there was this crazy guy in America telling everyone he had a Michelangelo at home," Forcellino said.

A scientific analysis of the painting, believed to have been painted in 1545[C6] [C7] , proved the Michelangelo was real. "The evidence of unfinished portions demonstrate that this painting never, never, never could be a copy of another painting," Forcellino said. "No patron pays in the Renaissance for an unfinished copy."

Additionally, the ownership history, points to the work being done by Michelangelo around 1545 for his friend Vittoria Colonna, about 45 years after Michelangelo sculpted his famous Pietá that now stands in St. Peter's Basilica.

The Pietá painting then passed to two Catholic cardinals and eventually ended with a German baroness named Villani. Villani then willed it to her lady-in-waiting, Gertrude Young, the sister-in-law of Kober’s great-grandfather. In 1883, she then sent the work to America[C8] .

Forcellino said Herman Grimm, a noted Michelangelo biographer, saw the Pietá painting in 1868 and attributed it to the master. Additional evidence includes a letter in the Vatican library discussing a Pietá painting for Colonna. "I'm absolutely convinced that is a Michelangelo painting," Forcellino said.

However, the jury is still out, according to Michelangelo expert William Wallace, a professor of architecture and art history at Washington University in St. Louis. Wallace said he saw the painting before Kober had it privately restored to remove 500 years of wear and tear, and maintains there is no definitive scientific way to attribute such a painting. Instead, experts will, over time determine the authorship of the painting.

However, Wallace agrees to the painting's potential worth. Now in a bank vault, the painting that hung on a wall in Buffalo, New York, could be worth as much as $300 million[C9] .


 [C1]The pieta is Michelangelo only signed work

 [C2]Like Elvis Michelangelo didn’t die he just went home

 [C3]The painting is a version of the pieta sculpture

 [C4]Yard sale fined of the century

 [C5]Kober:”so like ya I found this Michelangelo behind my couch”

 

Museum director:”Ya right, and I’m Leonardo DaVinci ”

 [C6]The first pieta by Michelangelo was sculpted in 1498 when he was in his early twenties and an unknown artist 

 [C7]This painting of the same subject was painted about twenty years before he died

 [C8]Fragile handle with care “under statement”

 [C9]Money you fine in the couch could be more then you could have ever imagined

Oct 27 / 4:02pm

Lost Michelangelo

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Oct 25 / 10:21pm

Evaluating Web Sites

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Oct 20 / 10:45pm

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Oct 18 / 9:41pm

Bring back Bugs

What happened to Saturday morning TV? TV Shows such as Road Runner, Bugs Bunny, and Daffy Duck have disappeared .these shows are no longer shown on TV at any time of day on any channel “trust me I looked”. Some say people lost interest in the classic cartoons others say the shows were taken off the air because of their violent nature or subtle innuendos that younger children may not fully understand but might repeat, I feel that these excuses are ridicules. Anything children might pickup from older TV shows are from a lack of education and close minded parents. This weekend I had some extra time on my hands to relax and catch up on my Saturday morning cartoons and I was disgusted. New Cartoons are ugly, deformed, creepy, and rude. I did not see the humor or any other entertainment from these animations.  I wish to know. What happened to Saturday morning cartoons ? A combination of entertainment and a introduction to culture.

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Oct 11 / 9:43pm

Bookworms go on adventures (MMR final draft)

 At a young age everyone gets asked, what they want to be when they grow up. My answers always surprised people. My earliest responses were architect, engineer, archeologist, artist, art teacher, and the curator of the Louvre. When my collage academic advisor asked me my career choice or my major, I looked back at what I told my parents when they first asked me. Now despite the strange looks and laughter I tell people “when I grow up I want to be Indiana Jones.” Indiana Jones was a teacher and an archeologist and believed strongly about the important of museums. Indiana Jones from the movie Raiders of the Lost Arch shares these and other characteristics with other leading men in movie that brings adventure to history.  Like Flynn Carsen in The Librarian: Quest for the Spear and Robert Langdon in The DaVinci Code.

These movies fantasize the lives of average men. The main characters who have an extremely exaggerated sex appeal such as Indiana Jones with his rugged, hansom, appearance as well as being daring and  incredibly smart. Flynn Carsen also has these extremely sexy traits but the rugged and daring attributes are masked by his intelligence he comes off as more a bookworm, a lot like Robert Langdon. Robert Langdon is the oldest of my three examples, but because of his age he appeals to a more sophisticated audience his charm is that he’s so smart he’s sexy. Although our main characters are fantasized in a way but no matter how hansom or suave  they try to be deep down there kind of nerds  . These everyday average men in the movies have dedicated their normal lives to the academics. Indiana Jones is a teacher, Robert Langdon was a writer, and Flynn Carsen was a professional student with a doctorate or degree in twenty two different subjects. Now these types of men teachers, writers, and students are normally pictured behind a desk or in a library. These bookworms are thrown in to an adventure as a hero. Only in the world of Hollywood can a stereotypical nerd be a hero. The hero that saves the day retrieves a priceless artifact and gets the girl        

In these movies being a historian what you would think to be a frightfully dull job of studying and reading, is twisted in to a thrilling advancer our bookworms slash adventurers gets the chance to travel the world looking for buried treasure, which is always hidden behind conspiracy and mystery that can almost always be solved with their whit, charm, and their vast historical knowledge. Now in the real world these jobs are boiled down to their simplest form. In reality retrieving a priceless artifact involves a combination of trial and error searching and study when historians finally find a valid site they travel to the middle of a hot desert. Digging for days on end with a tiny little shovel and a little broom to carefully and slowly revile pieces of broken pottery. In the movies all you see is a buff handsome man clutching a gold idle running from pissed of pigmies in a desert oasis.        

            The girl is another element of these movies the damsel in distress.  In every movie the hero is paired with an equally intelligent but somehow physically inferior female counterpart. In the movies the female starts of as a guide or an equal someone who can pull their own wait and help, but always manages to get in to trouble. This creates the false impression that only a strong man can save the day and the woman need saving. I am obviously pointing out that most historians are portrayed as male, and most action heroes are also male. In these three movies Indiana Jones, The Liberian, and The Da Vinci Code, the girl gets in trouble and the man swops in to save her at the last second. 

            In the movies a historian is stereotypically portrayed as strong, overly intelligent male in his mid to late thirties. who during the week sits behind a desk but on the weekends gets to travel the world in search of burrier treasure, solves elaborate puzzles, fights for what he believes is right, and in the end always gets the girl.  The only truth behind the movie is the fact that the historians are generally extremely intelligent males. Looking at the reality next to the fantasy I see that the job of a historian is very interesting from and academic perspective but taking a personal view I wish to bring the adventure to the mundane.   

 

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Oct 6 / 7:31pm

review, review

After Tuesdays review and reading and rereading my paper I realized that i need sooooooooooo much more help, so i have made my first appointment with the writhing center. so hopefully i can unlock one of those achievements , which like the points on Who's Line is it Anyway ?  "where everything's made up and the points don't matter." but anyway i would like to say thanks to my group and KarateCarolyn for your "meat and potato" insights so i will take your comments and hopefully come back Monday with a revised rewrighten remarkable paper.