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But it was also somehow pure,
但它也十分純粹
Michelangelo's colossal strength translated into flowing line.
米開朗基羅偉大的能量體現在流暢的線條
Michelangelo toiled away into his 80s on this.
米開朗基羅年屆八十 卻仍在為此辛勞
Living in a cell-like room in St Peter's, racked with pain,
他在圣伯多祿大殿的小房間里艱苦過活
refusing pay, eating very little.
拒領薪酬 食少事煩
February 24th, 1552, was a great day.
1552年2月24日是一個偉大的日子
Both in the career of the 76-year-old Michelangelo
對于76歲的米開朗基羅的事業如此
and in the long extraordinary history of the biggest dome
對于漫長歷史中這座世界上最大的穹頂
in the world, the cupola on top of St Peter's
圣伯多祿大殿的穹頂來說 亦是如此
because it was the day when the cornice of the drum was finished.
因為就在這一天穹頂鼓形座的飛檐完工了
The cornice is just below the area of the windows.
飛檐就在窗戶的下面
Essentially, it's the base which made it impossible for anyone,
基本上 就是這個基底使得任何人都不可能
no matter what happened after Michelangelo's death,
改變其大小 無論十二年后
12 years later, to change its size, but, more importantly,
米開朗基羅去世后發生什么 但更重要的是
it made it impossible to change Michelangelo's beautiful vision.
改變米開朗基羅美麗設想也變得不可能
To mark this great occasion, what did Michelangelo do?
為了紀念這一重要時刻 米開朗基羅做了什么
He threw a party.
他舉辦了一場聚會
And it wasn't for the patricians and the princes,
這不是為貴族 君王
and the Cardinal and the Pope,
紅衣主教 教皇舉辦的
it was for the workmen who made this possible.
而是為了使其得以實現的工人們
It was all the sausage you could possibly eat,
香腸享用不盡
four enormous pork livers, and what does this tell us
四塊超大豬肝 這告訴我們什么
about Michelangelo beyond the lovely anecdote that
除了米開朗基羅
he felt a kind of fraternal solidarity with the workmen?
和工人們之間有深厚感情之外
It tells us this.
這告訴我們
That Michelangelo, through all his life,
米開朗基羅一生
valued what his contemporaries
珍視同時代的人稱為
called "Ars". Ars, means art, in the old sense of hands-on skill.
藝的東西 藝就是藝術 古義指動手能力
In his case, of an almost sublime gift for technical engineering,
在他那里 就是指技術工程和構造能力的
for structural power.
非凡天賦
Knowing exactly what should go where.
天生知道該如何構造
But you weren't going to be a great artist
但你依舊無法成為偉大的藝術家
unless you could also marry that technical ability
除非你還擁有一種技能
with what Michelangelo's contemporaries called "Ingenio" -
米開朗基羅同時代的人稱之為Ingenio
the ability to conceive a sublime idea.
即孕育卓越想法的能力
And that heroic idea survived even his successors
那偉大的想法依舊不變
making the curve of the dome much steeper.
即使后人將圓頂的弧線弧度加大
Michelangelo died 89 years old,
米開朗基羅享年89歲
but before he could see the dome completed.
未來得及看到穹頂的完工
