After Michelangelo

Johann Gottfried Bartsch after Michelangelo
The Three Fates
ca. 1674-84
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Giulio Sanuto after Michelangelo
Pietà
1560
engraving
(after a preparatory drawing for the sculpture)
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome

Lucas Kilian after Michelangelo
Pietà
1604
engraving
(after the sculpture)
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Nicolas Beatrizet after Michelangelo
Tityus and Vulture
ca. 1550
engraving
(after a drawing)
Národní-Galerie-Prague

Agostino Musi after Michelangelo
Warrior tying Hose
1517
engraving
(after cartoon for The Battle of Cascina)
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Palma il Giovane after Michelangelo
Aurora
ca. 1580
drawing
(after sculpture on tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici)
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Marcello Venusti after Michelangelo
The Resurrection
ca. 1550
oil on panel
(after a drawing)
Harvard Art Museums

Anonymous Artist after Michelangelo
Detail of the David
18th century
drawing
(after colossal sculpture)
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Anonymous Artist after Michelangelo
Demon
ca. 1550
drawing
(after the Last Judgment fresco) 
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Anonymous Printmaker after Michelangelo
Ignudo
ca. 1780
engraving
(after the Sistine Ceiling fresco)
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

Anonymous Printmaker after Michelangelo
Classical Figure
ca. 1510-20
engraving
(after the figure of Adam in the Sistine Ceiling fresco)
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Gerhard Gröninger after Michelangelo
Ignudo
ca. 1620
drawing
(after the Sistine Ceiling fresco)
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Cherubino Alberti after Michelangelo
The Libyan Sibyl and the Prophet Daniel
1577
engraving
(after the Sistine Ceiling fresco)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Braun, Clément & Cie.
Michelangelo's Moses
(Basilica di San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome)
ca. 1880
photogravure
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Michelangelo's Moses
(Basilica di San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome)
ca. 1803-1804
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Ranieri Bettazzi
Michelangelo with his Moses
ca. 1855
chromolithograph
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome

Problem:  I am a tomb and I cover the lamented children of Philinna, containing fruit of her vainly-travailing womb such as I describe.  Philinna gave me my fifth portion of young men, my third of maidens, and three newly married daughters; the other four descended to Hades from her womb without participating at all in the sunlight and in speech.

Solution:  She had 15 children (3 + 5 + 3 + 4)

Problem:  Demochares lived for a quarter of his life as a boy, for a fifth part of it as a young man, and for a third as a man, and when he reached grey old age he lived thirteen years more on the threshold of eld.

Solution:  He lived 15 years as a boy, 12 as a young man, 20 as a man, and 13 years as an old man; in all 60. 

Problem:  Let fall a tear as you pass by; for we are those guests of Antiochus whom his house slew when it fell, and God gave us in equal shares this place for a banquet and a tomb.  Four of us from Tegea lie here, twelve from Messene, five from Argos, and half of the banqueters were from Sparta, and Antiochus himself.  A fifth of the fifth part of those who perished were from Athens, and do thou, Corinth, weep for Hylas alone.

Solution:  There were 50 guests. 

Problem:  Brick-makers, I am in a great hurry to erect this house.  To-day is cloudless, and I do not require many more bricks, but I have all I want but three hundred.  Thou alone in one day couldst make as many, but thy son left off working when he had finished two hundred, and thy son-in-law when he had made two hundred and fifty.  Working all together, in how many hours can you make these? 

Solution:  2/5 of a day. 

Problem:  Take, my son, the fifth part of my inheritance, and thou, wife, receive the twelfth; and ye four sons of my departed son and my two brothers, and thou my grieving mother, take each an eleventh part of the property.  But ye, my cousins, receive twelve talents, and let my friend Eubulus have five talents.  To my most faithful servants I give their freedom and these recompenses in payment of their services.  Let them receive as follows.  Let Onesimus have twenty-five minae and Davus twenty minae, Syrus fifty, Synete ten and Tibius eight, and I give seven minae to the son of Syrus, Synetus.  Spend thirty talents on adorning my tomb and sacrifice to Infernal Zeus.  From two talents let the expense be met of my funeral pyre, the funeral cakes, and grave-clothes, and from two let my corpse receive a gift.*

Solution:  The whole sum is 660 talents (132 + 55 + 420 + 12 + 5 + 2 + 34)

– from Book XIV (Arithmetical Problems, Riddles, Oracles) in the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1918)

*probably precious ointment