Abstract
The major objective of this Project is to investigate how did the Michelangelo myth during the 19th century in France as of three central themes: melancholy, heroism and failure.Michelangelo, in the years between 1830 - when Delacroix writes one of his biographies - and 1875 - when Rodin runs through Italy celebrating the fourth centenary of his birth - , not only became recurrent in Fren…