Texas Museum Acquires Michelangelo's 1st Painting

[David Zephyr]

Source: Associated Press

FORT WORTH, Texas – The Kimbell Art Museum will soon be the only U.S. museum to display a Michelangelo painting after acquiring his earliest known work, a rare treasure that was tucked away and doubted as authentic for more than a century.

The museum declined to disclose how much it paid for "The Torment of Saint Anthony," a 15th-century oil and tempera painting on a wood panel that depicts scaly, horned, winged demons trying to pull the saint out of the sky. Experts believe he painted it when he was only 12 or 13 years old.

And only four such works — including this one — by the artist exist, and two of them are unfinished. Most of his paintings are frescos, the famous scenes on the ceiling and wall of Rome's Sistine Chapel.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_kimbell_museum_michelangelo

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I can already hear the jokes about Texans buying Michaelangelo's art not realizing it was an OIL painting.

Anyway, the painting should be in Italy, not Fort Worth.

[cloudbase]

1. The Kimbell is a great museum.

When they put their collection together, they went for quality instead of quantity. Of the museums I've visited, it's right behind the Norton Simon as my favorite.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. I agree, it's really an excellent museum

I'm excited about the chance to see "The Torment of Saint Anthony" in person. The pictures I've seen of the detail are amazing.

[Justitia]

21. Yes, the Kimbell is definitely a gem! -eom

[Regret My New Name]

2. Us arrogant Americans think everything belongs to us.

[elleng]

8. Things that we buy DO BELONG TO US.

Isn't it that way where you live? TEXAS?

[WheelWalker]

14. Zing.

[MicaelS]

27. He's just pissed because it is in Fort Worth, not Austin.

If it was in Austin he would be singing praises.

[drgonzosghost]

4. It's going to suck when the locals paint clothes on any nude cherubs...

Not sure if they are in this piece, but I sure can see it happening.

[MilesColtrane]

10. Yeah, there's a lot you're not sure about, isn't there?

I imagine your information of the culture and people of Ft. Worth is just one of many voids you grapple with.

[Aristus]

12. I know Ft. Worth has people, but culture? Who knew?

:shrug:

[MilesColtrane]

13. Well, there's....

Kimball Art Museum, Modern Art Museum, Bass Performance Hall, Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, a jazz club named one of the top 100 in the world by Downbeat magazine, etc...

Now if you want to criticize Dallas as a city of rich yahoos, you'll have to get in line...because I've earned the right to go first on that one.

[snooper2]

29. Watch it buddy

:rofl:

Don't make the big D come down on you :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[EndersDame]

15. Hey I live just outside of Waco and there is culture

and hell there are even plenty of Obama stickers.I was afraid of Bellmead being inhabited with uncultured and ignorant rednecks before moving from Austin. I guess Big City arrogance regionalism and prejudice is even more of a problem

[LanternWaste]

22. We try...

We try...

Between the Kimbell, the Bass Performance Hall, and a host of small theater venues, we're trying to illustrate just as much culture as the rest of the country. But this being the U.S. and all-- it's not really that tough to do.

[Dreamer Tatum]

25. Everyone but you nt

[tanyev]

23. No, we just fire the art teacher that took the kids on the field trip. :(

Art Teacher Fired after Kids See Nude Sculpture at Art Museum

The school board in Frisco, Texas, made a shocking decision Monday that has outraged and puzzled many parents and local citizens. They have voted not to renew Sydney McGee’s contract.

McGee is an award-winning art teacher who has served the Texas public school system in Frisco for 28 years. Her art program at the Fisher Elementary School is so impressive that many parents actually moved to the neighborhood where the school is located because of the program’s excellent reputation.

Last April McGee took 89 fifth-graders on a field trip to the Dallas Museum of Art to show them the wonder of real art, up close. Before the trip she visited the museum to talk with officials to be sure the exhibits were appropriate for her fifth-grade class. The school’s principal, Nancy Lawson, urged McGee to take the students to the museum. Parents of the children signed permission slips for their children to go to the museum. But during the trip one of the students happened to see a nude sculpture and later mentioned it to a parent, and the parent complained.

The day after the trip, Lawson called McGee into her office and admonished her about taking the children. Shortly afterward, McGee received a negative review and a series of critical disciplinary remarks about her lesson plans and the way she displayed student artwork. Lawson wrote a memo to McGee stating that ahs had received complaints from parents and other teachers about the trip, because the students had been exposed to nude statues and other nude art representations.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/art-teacher-fired-kids-see-nude-sculpture-art-museum.html

[goforit]

5. George W Bush resides in Dallas...... And now this painting??? Very Illuminati!!!

A gift to SATAN

[tomreedtoon]

6. Bush will scrape his boots on it, like he did to the Constitution.

Or hang it in the Terlingua, TX Museum of Art (that ghost town's only functional outhouse).

[madamesilverspurs]

7. Umm, a tiny yeehaw

for any Texas money NOT being flushed down W's "library". . .

[crim son]

9. I don't know the museum but the painting is lovely.

I'd kill, almost, to own something created by Michaelangelo. His works, with Da Vinci's, inspired a lifelong interest in drawing, painting and the arts.

[DCKit]

11. Pic

Strangely, nearly identical to an engraving by another artist, and very similar to other works.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/engr/ho_20.5.2.htm

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[proteus_lives]

17. Funny!

They are all gun-happy hicks! Lets shit all over them!


:sarcasm:

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[proteus_lives]

18. Good for them.

Michaelangelo's work is beautiful.

Why do you think it belongs in Italy if it's a fair and legal purchase?

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[Lady Effingbroke]

36. Your reply adds absolutely nothing worthwhile to this discussion.

Also, it isn't very nice.

[proteus_lives]

37. Wait, what?

What did he say?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

19. I've always wanted to visit that museum...

The Kimbells are distant cousins of mine...No doubt from the side of the family that lived on the right side of the tracks. :)

[RandomThoughts]

20. This is what I think of when I look at that picture,

A question first comes to mind. It is 'who do you think you are in the picture?' Are you the Saint fighting to fly, or are you the evil trying to bring him down?

How do you know?

And more importantly, might at some times you be on one side, and at other times the other side?

Within my beliefs, and I believe the beliefs of the Saint in the painting, we are all sinners and at times make mistakes. And when we sin and make mistakes, we might just be in effect be trying to bring down the high fliers of good works.

But we can choose to be the workers of good works, the ways of kindness and the tougher roads of standing for those who have no voice, or those who are wounded, suffering, or laying on the side of the road as some just walk by.

That painting to me is to remind me how I would like to think of my self as always good, an untrue self righteous thought. But in truth, I must also accept, that when I sin by acting in selfishness, greed, envy, violence, hate, anger, deception and the many other things that can try and tear innocents from the sky, I would not be the better part of the painting. And anyone else acting in those ways would not be either.

Who do I want to be...

So knowing all, at one time or another, are sometimes good, and sometimes bad, I will envision the Saint to be those fighting with the good spirit to do the good works, and I will try to support them with kindness and love.

While at the same time, I will see the painting as a warning for what I could become if I turn to evil ways. Knowing that all are flawed, it will be a lesson on what I choose to avoid and what I try and be, not a claim of what I am. For all fail at times, and realizing that can help people be wary of many traps.

It was nice to see the picture, it was thought inspiring.

[MrsBrady]

24. The Kimbell is one of the premier museums in the country.

It has some of the biggest shows in the country.
It's museum system is internationally recognized.
It has several hundreds of millions of dollars in endowment...hands down a better system in Dallas, not even close.

Major shows come to the Kimbell in Fort Worth. They don't come to Dallas.
Chicago housed 92 of it's Impressionist collection at the Kimbell when is was renovating last year.

https://www.kimbellart.org/Index.aspx


Texas has is issues, but don't bash the Kimbell.

[BigBluenoser]

26. I decided to delete this because I wrote it when I was very mad..

I just get sick of people bashing states like it ain't no thang. Sorry to anyone who read this before i changed it.

[Lorien]

30. Pretty amazing work for a 12 or 13 year old:

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[northzax]

31. actually, it's pretty derivative

but yes, for a 12-13 year old painter, impressive. for Michealangelo? probably as embarrassing as the finger painted family portrait your mom still insists on keeping on the fridge.

[Lorien]

34. As a professional illustrator who has taught college level art courses

I'd be pretty happy if many of my students could handle the medium as well as a preteen Michaelangelo did. The painting was likely done as an exercise in the first place, given that an etching by another artist of the subject already existed.

[slackmaster]

32. I was hoping this was a piece from The Onion

And that the work in question was a finger painting or something.

[Paladin]

38. Are You Trashing The State Of Texas, Slack?

I hope not, because if so, you've really, really disappointed me. Ever been to the Kimbell? It is absolutely fabulous. It's the kind of place that DU Texas Bashers can't even conceive of existing in Texas---particularly since it isn't located in Austin, 'cause everybody knows that Austin is the only Really Cool Place in Texas, right?

Just a reminder: stereotyping and hatred directed indiscriminately against an entire region is against forum rules.....

[slackmaster]

33. Stutter punch

n/t