Genius of Michelangelo

Inventing a New Aesthetic—The Non-Finito (1x24)

: 01, 2007

This lecture considers some of the greatest of Michelangelo's unfinished works—including the four Slaves or Prisoners in the Accademia Gallery—and considers the possibility of his increasing interest in intentional incompletion: a genuine exploration of the idea of the non-finito as a new aesthetic.