Why are Michelangelo’s paintings called sculpturesque?

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Grae Kindel asked Sep 13, 2022

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Why are Michelangelo’s paintings called sculpturesque?

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Grae Kindel asked Sep 13, 2022

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Michelangelo's skin, because he felt that the church had skinned him! figures are sculpturesque as they twist, lots of foreshortening plus Chiaroscuro.

Chandrika Joshi answered Sep 13, 2022

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Answer: Michelangelo was the first Western artist whose biography was published while he was alive. In fact, two biographies were published during his lifetime.

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Artur Opalinski answered Sep 19, 2022