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you look so beautiful out therrrre

I mean, seriously......HOW do you get Better Than The BEST?......

Poppin'John managed to surpass Marquese

and everybody knows Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (the one you all call MICHAEL ANGELO, but it was actually pronounced mickle-angelo) was THE BEST SCULPTOR/ARTIST

but this isn't a painting of Michelangelo

this is a self portrait by BERNINI

Michelangelo was GARBAGE compared to Gian Lorenzo Bernini

he not only carved this woman (and cloth) out of marble, but he also carved the base from different marble, and carved the crenolated vestibule behind it, and painted the pictures around it

because BERNINI WAS A FUCKINGBEAST,!!!

Die Cornaro Kapelle, Detail des Altars mit der Ekstase von St. Teresa

(The Cornaro Chapel,detail of the altar with The Ecstasy of St. Teresa)

Bernini did ALL if this... everything you're looking at, he handcarved it all... one man

One dude

ooops!!!

>>46094 was accidentally a Thumbnail my bad

The Baldacchino, the high altar and the chair of St. Peter

look closely..... he CARVED all of this by hand

Michelangelo was a cheesy hack

Bernini was THE king

Michelangelo was crack cocaine....

Bernini was methylenedioxyamphetamine

Michelangelo's "David" was okay.... not bad

The Master was BERNINI

his works were GIGANTIC... HUGE...

massive.....

you can zoom in and look at the AMAZING intricate detail in any section

every single detail was more intricate than the next

because the best is always the best, no matter what

Joel-Peter Witkin is one of the leading photographers of our time, famous for his provocative and controversial works exploring death, religion, myth and allegory.

The artist was born on September 13, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York, to a merchantish father and a Roman Catholic mother and has a twin brother, Jerome Witkin, who is a well-known painter.

Witkin's parents were unable to transcend their religious differences and divorced while he was still young. Their mother raised Joel-Peter and his twin brother in a deeply religious atmosphere. He attended grammar school at Saint Cecelia's in Brooklyn and went on to Grover Cleveland High School.

Witkin bought his first camera in the mid-1950s and taught himself the fundamentals of camera use. Even his first photographs were unusual, depicting the many unsettling experiences of his childhood. His very first photograph portrayed a rabbi who claimed to have spoken to God. At the request of his brother, Witkin later took his camera to the Coney Island freak show. Jerome wanted the photographs for his own unique paintings.

Joel-Peter Witkin was drafted into the army in 1961. In order to have some control over his assignment, Witkin enlisted in the army for three years as a combat photographer. His assignments included recording on film the bodies of soldiers who had committed suicide or died in training accidents.

In 1967 Witkin decided to work as a freelance photographer and became City Walls Inc. official photographer. Following his army service, Witkin attended Cooper Union in New York and received his B.F.A. in 1974. During this same period, Columbia University awarded Witkin a fellowship in poetry. Witkin completed his graduate studies in photography and art history at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, receiving his M.A. in 1976 and his M.F.A. in 1981.

Witkin claims that his vision and sensibility were initiated by an episode he witnessed when he was just a small child, a car accident that occurred in front of his house in which a young girl was decapitated:

"It happened on a Sunday when my mother was escorting my twin brother and me down the steps of the tenement where we lived. We were going to church. While walking down the hallway to the entrance of the building, we heard an incredible crash mixed with screaming and cries for help. The accident involved three cars, all with families in them. Somehow, in the confusion, I was no longer holding my mother's hand. At the place where I stood at the curb, I could see something rolling from one of the overturned cars. It stopped at the curb where I stood. It was the head of a little girl. I bent down to touch the face, to speak to it - but before I could touch it someone carried me away."

The body is the armor of the Soul. It is birth canal, sex, identity. The physical, us. I photograph the body to show its difference and beauty. The body is what we kiss and kill for-shackle and crown… All in the name of life.

– Joel-Peter Witkin

Continuing to draw in large part from historical themes in art, literature and religion, Joel-Peter Witkin constructs narratives and fantasies around fragments of contemporary culture. Creating detailed and elaborate settings for his models, Witkin transforms the unusual and sometimes grotesque into a brazen personal vision of the sublime.

While Witkin’s subject matter has frequently been gleaned from a darker side of the real world, his most recent pictures show a more mature artist at work. Still working with skeletons, cadavers and individuals who may have one time been labeled “freaks,” the current exhibition evidences a more direct approach to his subjects, and a refined ability to weave a pictorialist tale

"THE KISS" Joel Peter Witkin

one cadaver's head sawed down the middle

Joel Peter Witkin : the Master of Masters

I'd highly recommend you check out Witkins Hardcover Coffee Table BookGODS OF EARTH AND HEAVEN

it's fucking amazing

and only costs a few hundred dollars