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MICHELANGELO BY: SERENA STEELE

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MICHELANGELOBY: SERENA STEELE

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Full name was Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni but most called him MichelangeloBorn on March 6, 1745 Caprese, Tuscany, ItalyMother died when he was sixWas sent away to live with stonecutters Would often skip school to drawFather opposed of his passion for the arts

Early Life

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The Start of Something New

Michelangelo’s determination prevailed &at the age of 13 he was apprenticed to the popular painter Domenico Ghirlandaio.

It was presumed that Michelangelo work of fresco painting was taken from Ghirlando

While copying a Masaccio fresco, he was punched in the face by another apprentice. The resulting broken nose gave his face its distinctive bent profile for the rest of his life.

About a year after working for Ghirlandaio, Michelangelo's talent attracted Lorenzo de' Medici, the unofficial ruler and leading art patron of Florence, & was invited to join the Medici household

There he had the opportunity to study classical and modern masterpieces of sculpture

When Lorenzo died in 1492, Michelangelo left the Medici palace

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Soon after Lorenzo died, Michelangelo undertook the study of anatomy based on the dissection of corpses from the Hospital of Santo Spirito, where he carved a wooden crucifix in gratitude.In 1494, Florence, stirred by the puritanical monk Girolamo Savonarola, removed the Medici family & reestablished a republic. Michelangelo, although he admired Savonarola & supported the republic, may have felt threatened because of his close ties to the Medici family He fled the city, stayed briefly in Venice, & then in Bologna. He supported himself with relatively minor sculpture commissions there.

To be Continued…

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The Beginning In 1496 Michelangelo was in Rome,

where he worked with two important projects, the Bacchus(1497) & Vatican Pietà(1499), an image of the Virgin Mary supporting the dead Christ.

In this work Michelangelo doesn’t show a painful face of the Virgin, but a surprisingly youthful woman gazing down calmly at the beautiful body of her son.

To ignore the awkwardness of placing an adult male body on the lap of a woman, he enlarges the Virgin but also makes her size bigger with drapery and wraps the body of Christ around her

The contract called the Pieta to to be “The most beautiful work in marble which exists today in Rome."

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oIn 1501, Michelangelo returned to Florence & a new challenge. A marble block that had been abandoned years earlier seemed unsuitable for a figure sculpture was assigned to him.oFrom that he carved the David(1501-1504). oDavid was a favorite Florentine subject, but Michelangelo's treatment broke because he represented the shepherd boy as a Herculean nude, twice life-size, and before, than after, the battle to make greater physical and psychic tension.o The statue was placed in the square outside the governmental palace, but it has since been moved inside to protect it from the weatheroDavid commissioned for the cathedral of Florence, is still considered the prime example of the Renaissance ideal of perfect humanity.

David

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Notorious

While painting frescos of the apostles for Florence Cathedral, he was interrupted when the newly elected pope, Julius II, called Michelangelo to Rome.

The pope's first request was for his tomb, a multilevel structure, to include more than forty figures. Michelangelo had barely begun when the pope changed his mind and ordered the artist instead to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Michelangelo objected that he was a sculptor, not a painter, but in the end he spent the years 1508-1512 covering the surface, about fifty-eight hundred square feet, seventy feet above the floor, with scenes from Genesis, covered by nude youths and surrounded by enthroned prophets.

In keeping with his preference for sculpture, emphasis is placed on the monumental figures with lesser background. As cleaning of the fresco has revealed, the coloring is both subtle and brilliant

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Other MasterpieceMichelangelo has many works of art & some of them include: Bacchus(1497) Along with the Pieta it is one of only two sculptures that can be attributed

with any certainty to the artist's first period in Rome Madonna of Bruges(1501-1504) Michelangelo's depiction of the Madonna and Child differs

significantly from earlier representations of the same subject , which tended to feature a pious Virgin smiling down on an infant held in her arms.

Torment of Saint Anthony(1487-1488) The Torment of Saint Anthony is the earliest known painting by Michelangelo

Doni Tondo(1507)The Doni Tondo or Doni Madonna is the earliest of only three surviving panel paintings by the adult Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti, and the only one to be finished

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Michelangelo Buonarroti died on February 18th, 1564, after a "slow fever." He made his will in three sentences, in front of his physician and his friends Tommaso Cavalieri and Daniele da Volterra, saying that he left "his soul to God, his body to the earth, and his material possessions to his nearest relations." There was little left in his house, since some time earlier he had burned much of his artistic material, including, to the great displeasure of Cosimo I, the designs for the facade of San Lorenzo. He is regarded today as among the most exalted of artists.

Death of a Mastermind

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Work Cited Page

"Michelangelo (1475-1564)." DISCovering Biography. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Student Resource Center - Gold. Gale. Colony High School. 7 Dec. 2009 <http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=SRC-1&docId=EJ2102101255&source=gale&srcprod=SRCG&userGroupName=onta38245&version=1.0>.

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