Already at 16, my mind was a battlefield my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms - one spiritual, the other earthly. (Michelangelo)

Already at 16, my mind was a battlefield my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms - one spiritual, the other earthly.

Michelangelo

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