{"id":27991,"date":"2018-01-15T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T16:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=27991"},"modified":"2018-01-15T11:37:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T16:37:52","slug":"michelangelo-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/01\/michelangelo-poet.html","title":{"rendered":"Michelangelo, poet<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before Michelangelo, Divine Draftsman & Designer<\/a> leaves The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, here’s a sweet little item from the show. It’s about how he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and it brings him down to earth. Jackson Pollock anyone?<\/p>\n

<\/a>

Click to enlarge.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\"\"<\/a>I’ve already grown a goiter from this torture,
\nHunched up as foul water does to cats
\n in Lombardy
\n(or any other place)
\nMy stomach’s firmly squashed under my chin,
\n my beard’s
\nPointing at heaven, my brain’s crushed with
\n force as in a casket,
\nMy breast twists like a harpie’s. My brush,
\nAbove me all the time, drips paint,
\nTurning my face into a perfect drop cloth.<\/p>\n

Translation adapted from James Saslow
\nthe New York Review of Books,
\nand the Poetry Foundation.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before Michelangelo, Divine Draftsman & Designer leaves The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, here’s a sweet little item from the show. It’s about how he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and it brings him down to earth. Jackson Pollock anyone? I’ve already grown a goiter from this torture, Hunched up as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18,4,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-news","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/michelangelo-met750.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-7ht","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27991"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28029,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27991\/revisions\/28029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}