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Connecting Tilda Swinton and Michelangelo
Tilda Swinton
British actress
She portrayed the mother of the title character, a teenage boy who commits a high school massacre. In 2012, she was cast in Jim Jarmusch's ''Only Lovers Left Alive''.
Jim Jarmusch
American film director, screenwriter and actor
In his two later-nineties films, he dwelt on different cultures' experiences of violence, and on textual appropriations between cultures: a wandering Native American's love of William Blake, a black hitman's passionate devotion to the ''Hagakure''.
William Blake
English poet and artist (1757–1827)
Within these drawings Blake found his first exposure to classical forms through the work of Raphael, Michelangelo, Maarten van Heemskerck and Albrecht Dürer.
Against Reynolds' fashionable oil painting, Blake preferred the Classical precision of his early influences, Michelangelo and Raphael.
Tilda Swinton
British actress
She appeared as a supporting character in the films ''The Beach'' (2000), featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, '' Vanilla Sky'' (2001), and as the archangel Gabriel in ''Constantine''.
Leonardo DiCaprio
American actor and film producer
DiCaprio's parents named him Leonardo because his pregnant mother first felt him kick while she was looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting in the Uffizi museum in Florence, Italy. When DiCaprio was one year old, his father moved out of their house after he fell in love with another woman.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452–1519)
Leonardo is widely regarded to have been a genius who epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal, and his collective works compose a contribution to later generations of artists matched only by that of his younger contemporary, Michelangelo.
Tilda Swinton
British actress
In February 2013, she played the part of David Bowie's wife in the promotional video for his song "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)", directed by Floria Sigismondi.
David Bowie
His art collection, which included works by Damien Hirst, Derek Boshier, Frank Auerbach, Henry Moore, and Jean-Michel Basquiat among others, was valued at over £10m in mid-2016.
Henry Moore
English artist known for sculpture (1898–1986)
He professed to have decided to become a sculptor when he was eleven after hearing of Michelangelo's achievements at a Sunday School reading.
In 1924, Moore won a six-month travelling scholarship which he spent in Northern Italy studying the great works of Michelangelo, Giotto di Bondone, Giovanni Pisano and several other Old Masters.
Tilda Swinton
British actress
The piece is sometimes wrongly credited to Cornelia Parker, whom Swinton invited to collaborate for the installation in London.
Cornelia Parker
British artist
For example, she wrapped Rodin's '' The Kiss'' sculpture in Tate Britain with a mile of string (2003) as her contribution to the 2003 Tate Triennial ''Days Like These'' at Tate Britain.
Auguste Rodin
Having saved enough money to travel, Rodin visited Italy for two months in 1875, where he was drawn to the work of Donatello and Michelangelo.
Rodin said, "It is Michelangelo who has freed me from academic sculpture." Returning to Belgium, he began work on '' The Age of Bronze'', a life-size male figure whose naturalism brought Rodin attention but led to accusations of sculptural cheating{{snd}}its naturalism and scale was such that critics alleged he had cast the work from a living model.
In the BBC series Civilisation, art historian Kenneth Clark praised the monument as "the greatest piece of sculpture of the 19th Century, perhaps, indeed, the greatest since Michelangelo." Rather than try to convince skeptics of the merit of the monument, Rodin repaid the ''Société'' his commission and moved the figure to his garden.
During his lifetime, Rodin was compared to Michelangelo, and was widely recognized as the greatest artist of the era.
