SAVANNAH — As a boy in the Bronx, Jerome Meadows dreamed of Michelangelo.
He’d spend his spare waking hours drawing or painting horses in the style of the master artist — hyper-realistic with highly articulated musculature — only to talk with and create with the sculptor and painter after he’d gone to sleep. Some nights, the two would discuss Meadows’ favorite Michelangelo works, a series of statues known as “The Prisoners” or “The Slaves” because the forms are only partly carved free of the stones.
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