After posting the last entry about Rockwell's Rosie the Riveter one of my students pointed out on facebook that he has directly borrowed from Michelangelo's "The Prophet Isaiah" from the Sistine Ceiling. Good eye Logan!
But did you know that Raphael grabbed the pose from Michelangelo first? The story goes that when the ceiling was still under wraps in 1511 the architect and painter Donato Bramante snuck Raphael into the chapel to sneak a peek. Raphael's "School of Athens" still in progress at the time, he is said to have scraped off the fresco to start it over again inspired by Michelangelo's style. His figure of Heraclitus is said to be modeled after his rival Michelangelo who hated Raphael as a plagiarist.
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