Michelangelo Buonarroti Bust
18” × 9” × 12” - One of A Kind, Hand Sculpted Porcelain.
To create this piece, I traveled to Florence, Italy - a city like no other. I came here to walk in the footsteps and sculpt in the shadow of the greatest sculptor of all time: the incomparable Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Michelangelo was born with no indicators that he would become the greatest sculptor of all time. None of his ancestors were artists. His father was a financially unstable, low-level, bureaucrat. But, whether you believe in his god, or destiny, or the flap of a butterfly’s wings, with his mother in poor health, Michelangelo was sent to live with a wet-nurse whose husband worked in the nearby marble quarry. The quarry that provided the marble for Florence’s artist and architects. In leu of school, Michelangelo spent the first ten years of his life playing with the man’s stone-cutting tools on small chunks of marble that he had brought home from the quarry.
This childhood was the only point in his life where he would find peace. With this sculpture, my hope is that in eternity, he finally found it again.
18” × 9” × 12” - One of A Kind, Hand Sculpted Porcelain.
To create this piece, I traveled to Florence, Italy - a city like no other. I came here to walk in the footsteps and sculpt in the shadow of the greatest sculptor of all time: the incomparable Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Michelangelo was born with no indicators that he would become the greatest sculptor of all time. None of his ancestors were artists. His father was a financially unstable, low-level, bureaucrat. But, whether you believe in his god, or destiny, or the flap of a butterfly’s wings, with his mother in poor health, Michelangelo was sent to live with a wet-nurse whose husband worked in the nearby marble quarry. The quarry that provided the marble for Florence’s artist and architects. In leu of school, Michelangelo spent the first ten years of his life playing with the man’s stone-cutting tools on small chunks of marble that he had brought home from the quarry.
This childhood was the only point in his life where he would find peace. With this sculpture, my hope is that in eternity, he finally found it again.
18” × 9” × 12” - One of A Kind, Hand Sculpted Porcelain.
To create this piece, I traveled to Florence, Italy - a city like no other. I came here to walk in the footsteps and sculpt in the shadow of the greatest sculptor of all time: the incomparable Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Michelangelo was born with no indicators that he would become the greatest sculptor of all time. None of his ancestors were artists. His father was a financially unstable, low-level, bureaucrat. But, whether you believe in his god, or destiny, or the flap of a butterfly’s wings, with his mother in poor health, Michelangelo was sent to live with a wet-nurse whose husband worked in the nearby marble quarry. The quarry that provided the marble for Florence’s artist and architects. In leu of school, Michelangelo spent the first ten years of his life playing with the man’s stone-cutting tools on small chunks of marble that he had brought home from the quarry.
This childhood was the only point in his life where he would find peace. With this sculpture, my hope is that in eternity, he finally found it again.