Michelangelo Buonarroti

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Michelangelo Buonarroti

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Contents
Cover Page P.1
Contents P.2
Preface P.3
Ones Life
P.4-P.10 Style Characteristics
P.11 The End
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Preface
The beginning of the sixteenth century, is the
most famous period of Italian art which is called
the High Renaissance. This was the time of
Leonardo da Vinci,Michelangelo and Raphael.
In the following,I am going to introduce one of
the artist --- Michelangelo.In fact,he was a
sculptor,but he was also a painter,a constructor
and a poet. Lets go to the Michelangelos
world!
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One's Life
Michelangelo Buonarroti(1475-1564)was an
Italian.He was born on the 6th of March in 1475
at Caprese, a small town south of Florence,where
his father was the local governor. A few weeks
after he was born,the family moved to Florence
where,at the age of thirteen,Michelangelo went
to work for the artist Domenico Ghirlandaio.In
Ghirlandaios workshop,he learned the technique
of fresco painting and made drawings from
Classical sculpture.
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After three years,Michelangelo transferred to
the school for sculptors set up in the Medici
gardens by Lorenzo deMedici and supervised by
the sculptor Bertoldo.His first copies of
Classical sculpture in the gardens so impressed
Lorenzo that Michelangelo was taken into his
household to study art,music and poetry with the
Medici children.
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After Lorenzo died in 1492,Michelangelo
traveled first to Bologna

• and then to Rome,where he won fame with his Pieta
  group,carved for a chapel in the great Church of
  St. Peter.

Pietas
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The following years,Michelangelo was called to
Rome by Pope Julius 11 to begin work on a huge
free-standing tomb with forty figures.

• In 1508,Pope Julius 11 interrupted
  Michelan-gelos work on the tomb because he
  wanted him to paint the Sistine Chapel in the
  Vatican.
• Single-handedly,working for over four years
  from scaffolding,Michelangelo painted the whole
  ceiling with over three hundred figures.

The Creation of Adam,part of his painting
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After the Popes death,in 1513,Michelangelo
resumed work on the tomb,carving the giant
figures of Moses and the Slaves.

• He also began work on the design for a new
  chapel at St Lorenzo in Florence,with memorials
  to the Medici family.

Moses ,the only part had been finished completely
of the tomb.
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In 1523,the new Pope Paul 111 commissioned
Michelangelo to paint a fresco of the Last
Judgement on the altar wall of the Sistine
Chapel.The subject of uneasiness and fear of the
people of Rome following the destruction and
plundering of their city by the troops of the
Holy Roman Emperor Charles 5 in 1527,and the
troubled years of the Counter-Reformation which
follow.
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In Michelangelos later years,he was appointed
chief architect to the new Church of St Peter and
his design

• for its great dome was his last major project .
• He died at the age of eighty-nine in 1564.

Church of St Peter
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Style Characteristic
All Paintings and sculptures of Michelangelo
were heroic , monumental , muscled , and filled
with a pent-up expressive emotionalism.
Especially his sculpture , such as his well-known
Pietas , David , and figures for the tomb of
Julius 11 showed his individual bent of freeing
images imprisoned in the stone.
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THE END
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