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Michelangelo

Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet during the High Renaissance era. He is considered one of the most accomplished artists of his time due to his influential frescoes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling and The Last Judgment, as well as sculptures like David and Pietà created before age 30. Michelangelo transformed architecture with his design of the Laurentian Library and later oversaw construction of St. Peter's Basilica.

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Michelangelo

Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet during the High Renaissance era. He is considered one of the most accomplished artists of his time due to his influential frescoes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling and The Last Judgment, as well as sculptures like David and Pietà created before age 30. Michelangelo transformed architecture with his design of the Laurentian Library and later oversaw construction of St. Peter's Basilica.

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(6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564)

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni,


known simply as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor,
painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance.
He was Born in the Republic of Florence in 6th of
March 1457. His work had a major influence on the
development of Western art, particularly in relation to
Michelangelo
the Renaissance notions of humanism and naturalism.
He is often considered a contender for the title of the
archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and elder
contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci.
Given the sheer volume of surviving
correspondence, sketches, and
reminiscences, Michelangelo is one of
the best-documented artists of the
16th century and several scholars
have described Michelangelo as the
most accomplished artist of his era.
Sculpture of David

He sculpted two of his best-known


works, the Pietà and David, before the
age of thirty. Despite holding a low opinion
of painting, he also created two of the
most influential frescoes in the history of
Western art: the scenes from Genesis on
the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, Sculpture of Pieta
and The Last Judgment on its altar wall.

His design of the Laurentian Library pioneered Mannerist


architecture. At the age of 74, he succeeded Antonio da Sangallo the
Younger as the architect of St. Peter's Basilica.
He transformed the plan so that
the western end was finished to his
design, as was the dome, with some
modification, after his death.
Michelangelo was the first Western
artist whose biography was published
while he was alive.

The Last Judgment


In fact, two biographies were published
during his lifetime. One of them, by Giorgio Vasari,
proposed that Michelangelo's work transcended
that of any artist living or dead, and was
"supreme in not one art alone but in all three." ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

In his lifetime, Michelangelo was often called Il Divino ("the divine


one"). His contemporaries often admired his terribilità—his ability to
instill a sense of awe in viewers of his art.
~ M.K.F. Bushra
9C
F.M.L.C.

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