![]() ![]() The eighty-five page article was part of a special issue of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts published on the 400th anniversary of Michelangelo’s birth. ![]() “Made to Measure: Eugène Guillaume’s Michelangelo” examines Guillaume’s article, “Michel-Ange, sculpteur,” as a reflection of the concerns and attitudes of its author, during the early years of the Third Republic, uncovering an interpretation of Michelangelo distinctly rooted in nineteenth-century France. Like so many books, chapters, essays, paintings, and poems about Michelangelo created in nineteenth-century France, Guillaume’s essay has been eclipsed completely by more modern approaches to Michelangelo rooted in the examination of documentary evidence. Guillaume took a very different view, presenting an interpretation of Michelangelo’s sculpture that emphasized the artist’s debt to the classical tradition and styled Michelangelo as a man who, like Guillaume, found refuge from turmoil in the enduring tradition of classical art. ![]() Guillaume’s article responded to those who admired Michelangelo’s sculpture for its passion and force and found in those powerful contorted figures a reflection of the turbulent character of the Italian Renaissance. It was the first extensive study focused on Michelangelo’s sculpture published in France. In 1876, the academic sculptor Eugène Guillaume published an article, “Michel-Ange, sculpteur,” in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts. ![]()
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