Michelangelo
Italian culture has offered a myriad of beneficial aspects, yet none like the extraordinary works of Michelangelo Buonarroti, who was born March 6, 1475 in the small village of Caprese, Italy. Michelangelo was a sculptor, an architect, a painter, and a poet that did most of his work during the Italian high renaissance. While studying one day at 15, he was invited into the household of Lorenzo de' Medici the Magnificant, (ruler of Florence 1492-1494). Michelangelo's future was shaped to a large degree by his life in Lorenzo's household. When Lorenzo died in 1942 at the age of 43, Michelangelo designed the tombs for Lorenzo as well as his brother, Guiliano de Medici. The two complex tombs were conceived as representing opposite types; Lorenzo's; the contemplative, introspective personality, while Guiliano's; the active, extroverted one. He put magnificent nude representations of dawn and dusk on Lorenzo's tomb and representations of day and night on Guiliano's tomb. Work on the Medici tombs continued long after Michelangelo went back to Rome in 1534. In 1505 Pope Julius II called Michelangelo back to Rome for two commissions. The most importan
Michelangelo's life. However without Julius II, Michelangelo might never have had the opportunity of developing the full power of his imagination. From 1501-1504 Michelangelo worked on his most recognizable sculpture "David", after returning to Florence. The sculpture shows a nude youth, muscular and alert looking off into the distance waiting for his enemy Goliath. "The David" became a symbol of Florence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michelangelo worked right up until his last week. He worked on a pieta that was very different from the one he originally created during 1498 through 1500 while in his early twenties. His first creation was his only signed work. The virgin holds the body of Christ on her lap, where as on his later pieta she no longer supports Christ, but leans over him in an embrace. Michelangelo died at the end of the Renaissance era when art was moving into the Baroque era. In my opinion, his work was well done, Michelangelo ruled the Renaissance with his artwork. In Rome in 1536, Michelangelo was working on the Last Judgment for the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, which he finished in 154
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