Two Artists And One Great Age
The great age, Renaissance was a time when old beliefs were tested. It was a period of intellectual ferment that prepared the ground for the thinkers and scientists of the 17th century. It was an age that bore two great artists: Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Leonardo was not a prolific painter like his fellow artists. He was a kind of intellectual painter, a painter who thought a great deal about nature and about how to represent it in art before he picked up the brush. Yet, one might attribute that quality to Michelangelo as well who was clearly a deep thinker. In looking at the works of these artists, their driven personalities and great accomplishments, one sees many similarities. However, they chose different techniques and different mediums. Further, Da Vinci was more of a scientist whereas Michelangelo was more of a loner who was devoted to the love of art and sculpture. Nevertheless, the paintings, statues and unfinished designs created by these two solitary often-abrasive artists are among the most beautiful in the world. Their work is important because it interweaves past revolutionary ideals with modern age of skepticism. If one person could be singled out as the essence of the Renaissance it would be Leo
Like da Vinci, Michelangelo is considered one of the greatest examples of the Renaissance man. Michelangelo was a painter, architect and sculptor. He considered himself mainly a sculptor. He saw the human form through the sculptor's eyes. Michelangelo was born in 1475 in the village of Caprese and grew up in Florence, which was the art capital of the early Renaissance. The famous dome on the top of Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City is a Michelangelo design. Michelangelo similarly to Leonardo da Vinci seemed to thrive on challenge and difficulty in work. His painting often lacked a background and he depicts the human form in strong three-dimensional renderings. His paintings were often referred to as painted sculpture. Even though Leonardo's Mona Lisa arguably ranks as the millennium's most recognizable painting, Michelangelo's total body of work-his sculptures, paintings, and frescoes-is unequaled. Michelangelo's popular fame may rest on the sculpture masterpiece David (1501-1504, Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy) and the Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508-1512, Vatican City), but the Italian artist had a long and varied career. David, perhaps the most famous sculpture in the world, was completed using a block of discarded marble. The artist spent four years flat on his back high on a scaffold in the Sistine Chapel to complete the masterpiece painting on the ceiling. Although ceiling paintings were usually considered unimportant and were reserved for figures because of their distance from the viewer, Michelangelo produced biblical scenes of power and subtlety o
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