![]() ![]() The Blu-ray release has nary a feature but the audio and video transfers are both well done. Overall, The Agony and the Ecstasy is a massive production and features two fine performances by Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison it’s also an interesting, widespread, story that keeps one’s attention through the 2-hour running time. Dialogue levels sound clear enough while the more action-oriented scenes fill out the center and front channels and the encompassing score makes use of the rear channels along with the front speakers as well. The 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio track is more than adequate albeit it’s hardly dynamic. The video looks quite good considering its age going on close to 50 years and it appears some good work has been done cleaning it up as only minor instances of dust marks are seen, and most viewers probably wouldn’t even notice them, but scratches are non-existent and colors appear to be well balanced while detail levels on both close-ups and background elements are sharp. ![]() But Michelangelo garners the strength to continue.Īll that is included is the Teaser (1:15) and the Theatrical Trailer (3:28).įox releases The Agony and the Ecstasy onto Blu-ray presented with a 2.20 widescreen aspect ratio and a crisp-looking 1080p high-definition transfer. While recovering, the Pope’s architect Donato Bramante (HARRY ANDREWS) pressures the Pope to use Raphael to finish the ceiling. Bounarroti suffers from blindness as a result of paint poisoning, and fatigue from overwork. Michelangelo is accused of blasphemy and heresy by portraying Pagan symbols and myths, but is allowed to continue. The work proceeds nonstop, even with mass in session. On a battlefield, Michelangelo convinces the Pope to change the grand design and paint not just the panels of the ceiling, but the entire vault. He evades the pope’s guard and flees into the mountains, where he becomes inspired. After his first attempt at painting the Apostles, he destroys his work and flees to Carrara to quarry marble. Instead, Pope Julius II (REX HARRISON) orders him to paint frescos on the Sistine Chapel ceiling depicting the 12 Apostles. Plot Outline*: Michelangelo Buonarroti (CHARLTON HESTON), a sculptor from Florence, is first commissioned to craft the Pope’s tomb in Rome. Writer(s): Irving Stone (novel) Philip Dunne (story, screenplay)Ĭast: Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane CilentoĪudio: English (DTS-HD MA 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 1.0), Spanish (Dolby Digital 1.0) His name is synonymous with the glory of the Renaissance.The Agony and the Ecstasy is a massive production and features two fine performances by Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison it’s also an interesting, widespread, story that keeps one’s attention through the 2-hour running time.įox | NR – 138 min. Sculptor, painter, poet, architect, and sincere Christian-he embodied the grand tensions, complexities, uncertainties, and achievements of his era. Michelangelo himself became the true Colossus of Tuscany. Neither was a gigantic figure ever carved from the mountain face by the shores of Tuscany. During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. Although 94 wagonloads of marble were quarried and shipped back to Rome, the papal tomb was never completed according to the original plan. He could not bring himself to convey Christ’s divinity by anything so obvious as a halo it had to be portrayed through an inner force, strong enough to conquer his misgivings at this hour of severest trial. While Michelangelo was considering the landscape, he was seized with the idea of carving a colossus out of a mountain that would be visible to seafarers from afar (one presumes comparable to the great Colossus of Rhodes, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world). On Christ’s face appeared the expression, I am in agony, not from the iron nails, but form the rust of doubt. When the pope saw Michelangelo's design, he was so delighted that he dispatched the artist immediately to the stupendous marble quarries of Carrara, not far from the Italian coast in Tuscany, to find suitable stone. In 1505, Pope Julius II called a much-admired Florentine sculptor named Michelangelo to Rome to create a huge, freestanding tomb with approximately 40 over-life-size marble statues, all to be made within five years. Michelangelo Buonarotti reached the pinnacle of fame as a sculptor, painter, and architect, yet he longed for something more. ![]()
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