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Intertwined with his four magnificent horses, Phaëthon turns his splendid body toward us one last time.
Michelangelo gave the drawing of Phaëthon to Tommaso de' Cavalieri, the Roman nobleman to whom he addressed some of his most passionate sonnets--Michelangelo was a gifted poet, too.
Michelangelo's metamorphic wit, somewhere between the nightmare transformations of his fellow Florentine Dante Alighieri and the baroque fantasies of Lorenzo Bernini, is nowhere better displayed than in his famous drawing of Phaëthon's fall.
But Phaëthon's fall, like the cascading forms in Michelangelo's Sistine Last Judgment , has its own headlong ecstasy.
Phaëthon, you'll remember, wanted to drive his father's car--that is, Apollo's--across the sky.