MICHELANGELO

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General information

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564)

the best-documented artist of the 16th century

Caprese, Italy Sculptor, architect, poet and

engineer High Renaissance

Interesting facts

Divine 18 February, 1564 – Galileo and

W.Shakespeare were born Is concidered to be one of the greatest

masters in the history of European art His father hoped he would be a

businessman or a merchant(kaupmees), when Michelangelo told him he’d wish to be an artist, hes father raged and said : ‘artist are laborers, no better than shoemakers.’

Life development

• Grammar school ( was encouraged)

• Studied anatomy• Got his nose broken• Sleeping Cupid, the

fraud

Went to learn sculpting

• Mocked by the pope• Pieta• David – ‘The Giant’

At 23, recognized as a great sculpture

• Elected to build the tomb of pope Julius II

• The Sistine Chapel ceiling

Dome of St. Peter’s Basilica

Michelangelo’s Views on Painting “The more painting resembles

sculpture, the better I like it, the more sculpture resembles painting, the worse I like it”. -1547

On Portraiture: …”flattery of idle curiosity and of the imperfect illusions of the senses”.

On the Sistine Ceiling:…”this is not my profession. I am wasting my time, and all for nothing. May God help me!”

The tomb of Julius II

David ‘The Giant’

Pietà The Sistine Chapel

Last Judgement

•Depiction of the second coming of the Christ and theApocalypse

Personality

No social life Barely ate and drinked, lived like a

homeless person Obsessed with perfection Thought everyone were his enemies

( da Vinci, Raffaele ) Creative ( transporting

marble;‘David’;dome )

Michelangelo and literature Poems to his boyfriend La carne terra, e qui l'ossa mia, prive

de' lor begli occhi, e del leggiadro aspettofan fede a quel ch'i' fu grazia nel letto,che abbracciava, e' n che l'anima vive

The flesh now earth, and here my bones,Bereft of handsome eyes, and jaunty air,Still loyal are to him I joyed in bed,Whom I embraced, in whom my soul now lives.

Biographies – selfish

statements claiming he

did everything by himself

Used literaturehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/michelangelo.html

http://www.personal.psu.edu/jmf267/Assignment%204.html

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/bio/m/michelan/biograph.html

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-divine-michelangelo/

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