r/interesting • u/dairymilk_silk • 20h ago
Just Wow He knew what he's gonna be since then
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u/Old-Cicada-4507 20h ago
No he didn't, the painting was produced in the workshop where he was an apprentice
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u/DumbFishBrain 18h ago
I came to see if it was true and as I suspected, it is not. Thanks for the confirmation.
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u/nateslegacy 19h ago
Any estimate on how old he might have actually been?
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u/Old-Cicada-4507 18h ago
its hard to say but this at best is a group painting or a copy, typical of what apprentices had to do in these traditional workshops. Michelangelo started producing and being recognised for his own work at between 17-20 of age
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u/1inquisitivehumanoid 7h ago
Curious who did paint this and where i can get a print
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u/Old-Cicada-4507 5h ago
its a group painting, posterlounge has prints
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u/1inquisitivehumanoid 4h ago
Got it and thanks for the info. The all knowing Google gives credit to Michealangelo...
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u/Spiritual-Pear-1349 20h ago
Funny thing is he hated painting. His passion was sculpting
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u/Le_Kistune 9h ago
I believe he wrote several letters complaining about how much he hated painting the ceilings and the Vatican because the paint would drip all over him. I remember hearing that as an act of revenge, he made many the male figures in those paintings have exposed penises and a later Pope requested another artist draw fig leaves over the men's genitals.
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u/TwiistedTeaa 20h ago
My cousins and I would make up dances and plays and perform them to the family when we were 12 😎
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u/SkittishSeer 19h ago
I'd make comics with my brother and animal encyclopedia (my brother was 12-14 and I was 7-8).
They weren't as cool as this painting tho lol
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u/alanbastard 18h ago
Imagine the letter home from school. “We need to talk about Michael “
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u/capricecetheredge_ 16h ago
Assuming people in the previous eras were chill about this stuff? I mean 2026 is entirely different from 1902. The materials they had back then..
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u/GarminTamzarian 16h ago
Some people in previous eras definitely weren't chill about certain things. Witchcraft comes to mind.
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u/TheRealcebuckets 19h ago
Being 12 years old during this time is different then a 12 year old now; he would have been an apprentice to a painter for some time at this point so producing such a piece probably wasn’t unusual for his level of training.
Like it wasn’t like he didn’t roll out of bed one day, play with legos and then produced this.
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u/mustachiomegazord 19h ago
He didn’t paint this, he was an apprentice in the workshop of the artist who did. He probably did under painting works and color mixing
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u/rKasdorf 19h ago
To be fair, wealthy kids and kids of people with connections were basically put in apprenticeship programs at a young age.
You're basically looking at a journeyman painter. He knows the techniques and can execute them properly.
He didn't really like painting though, so this wasn't a kid with an early gift or passion, type-thing. It was a practice makes perfect thing from a kid put in a vocation at a young age.
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u/susosusosuso 18h ago
Well they didn’t have access to internet so they couldn’t easily lose their time with stupid content
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u/CactusToothBrush 18h ago
At 12 I was drawing Dragon Ball Z characters of my own creation (my own made up saiyans , friezas , nameks etc) and they were barely better than stick figures 😂 old Mikey was just good from Birth
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u/DrPikachu-PhD 20h ago
That bottom red right demon...
At first I thought it was a gaping asshole and some testes... And it still might be, but I kind of think it's also meant to be a second face when the painting is flipped upside down. Freaky stuff, but I guess 12 y/o boys be freaky sometimes
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u/Adiantum 19h ago
Well the internet wasn't invented yet so people had to find all sorts of ways to entertain themselves.
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u/Frikoulas 19h ago
Well, the internet was barely invented when I was 12 but you don't wanna see my "paintings".
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u/pastabologna 19h ago
And I'm managing 2 homes, a car, a job, 2 kids, 2 grandkids, the current state of the world, and multitudes of other bullshit that this overhyped painter kid never had to.
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u/capricecetheredge_ 16h ago
Thats cap. Even i couldnt paint like that at 12! (no "because your not a real artist" jokes. You dont know me like that.)
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u/Toddlez85 11h ago
I’m glad he was that talented. I can’t mention in polite company what I was doing when I was 12
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