On March 6but separated by 450 years, two indisputable geniuses were born – the artist sculptor Michelangelo Buonarroti and the writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Without them, the world’s cultural heritage would be far poorer. The Florentine Michelangelo painted for us, carved from marble and built his magnificent divine world. The Colombian Márquez did not just write books, but created palaces of love in which words flew gently like doves.
The Florentine Michelangelo Buonarroti
was born in 1475. Even as a boy, his talent was noticed by the patron Lorenzo de’ Medici. At the age of 22, he created the “Pieta” sculpture, which today is in the “St. Peter’s” Basilica in Rome – the Virgin Mary carrying Christ taken down from the cross in her lap with infinite pain and tenderness.
At the age of 26, he “takes out” his David from the marble block, at the moment when the hero assesses his chance to kill the invincible Goliath with a simple sling.
The belligerent Pope Julius II commissioned him to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and for four years, lying on the scaffold with paint dripping down his face, Michelangelo painted the Creation of the World, the Creation of Man and his Fall. He was then 33 years old. Later, in the same chapel, he also painted the Last Judgment at the altar.
The Florentine created many sculptors and canvases, but among the peaks of his genius is undoubtedly the architecture of St. Peter’s. Begun by Bramante, the chapel project was completed by Michelangelo when he was 75 years old. The architecture of the dome of the most sacred church for Catholics creates the feeling that this is the real earthly house of God.
Michelangelo died at the age of 88 on February 18, 1564.
The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Colombia
in 1927 as the eldest son among 12 children in the family. At first he worked as a journalist, but apparently short texts are not for him – the ocean cannot fit into the media trough, which is filled and emptied every day.
Marquez published his most famous novel – “One Hundred Years of Solitude” when he was 40 years old. The book was written over a year and a half and against the background of the extreme misery in which his family lives. The success of the novel solved the writer’s financial problems once and for all.
In 1981, he published the small book “Chronicle of a Foretold Death”, which was filmed in the last century with the participation of the beautiful Ornella Muti.
When he was 58, the tireless Márquez, like a volcano awakened after centuries of rest, released his other great masterpiece, Love in the Time of Cholera. Four years later, he was diagnosed with lung cancer.
The great Colombian died on April 17, 2014, when he was 87 years old. His readers mourned him and thanked him for the magic he gave them.
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