SALON LUITPOLD | Zum 550. Geburtstag Michelangelos | Mit Ulrich Pfisterer

In the organizer's words:

The rise to the "divine artist"

With art historian Ulrich Pfisterer and Christian Gohlke

The 'divine' Michelangelo has lost none of his fascination even in 2025, the year of his 550th birthday. Several works by the painter, sculptor, master builder and poet of the Italian High Renaissance
are still part of the cultural visual memory of the Western world today: the statue of David in Florence, the 'Creation of Adam' on the Sistine ceiling or the seated 'Moses' from the tomb of Pope Julius II.
person of Michelangelo ideally represents our idea of the
melancholic and ingenious artist-superman. How did this fame come about? The evening examines Michelangelo's ideas and strategies, but also the artistic achievements of his early works of art, to which he attributed this breathtaking fame.
works of art to which he owed this breathtaking rise. It not only reveals Michelangelo's intense debate and competition with other artists of his time. It also makes it easier to understand
why his clients accepted his innovative ideas, gigantic designs and, at the same time, his slow work, which often resulted in unfinished works.