Chapter 18 A.M.-After Michelangelo

What goes up must come down. Sculpture had been going up.It had been getting better and better since the beginning of the Renaissance.Renaissance sculpture was at its peak with the work of Michelangelo.

Then

it

came

down!

For two hundred years after Michelangelo, there were hundreds of sculptors but only a few good ones. One of the good ones was Cellini, the goldsmith who made the bronze Perseus Beheading Medusa.Another was John of Bologna from Belgium.