by Kenneth Clark Michelangelo signed himself
Michelangelo scultore, and in a letter to his father protested that ' painting is not my profession.' LORD CLARK argues that however much Michelangelo himself deprecated his painting, it formed not only a vital part of his work but exerted a considerable influence on the next generation of artists.
A broadcast version of a lecture first given in Italian at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence on behalf of the Florentine Academy of which Lord Clark is a member. followed by an Interlude