Art History in Charles Baudelaire’s “The Flowers of Evil”-The Ideal

“Michelangelo, Night, 1526-31, detail; New Sacristy (Medici Chapel), San Lorenzo, Florence”

Richard Mortel from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

From the Project Gutenberg Edition
“Or thee, oh great “Night” of Michael-Angelo born,
Who so calmly thy limbs in strange posture hath drawn,
Whose allurements are framed for a Titan’s mouth.”

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