Michelangelo

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Michelangelo
By Cadet Thornton
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incredible

• Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564) exerted
  enormous influence. He, too, was universally
  acknowledged as a supreme artist in his own
  lifetime, but again, his followers all too often
  present us with only the master's outward manner.

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Michaelangelo

• Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet. He
  was one of the founders of the High Renaissance
  and, in his later years, one of the principal
  exponents of Mannerism. Born at Caprese, the son
  of the local magistrate, his family returned to
  Florence soon after his birth. Michelangelo's
  desire to become an artist was initially opposed
  by his father, as to be a practicing artist was
  then considered beneath the station of a member
  of the gentry.

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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
A remarkable artist and poet!!
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David

• Michelangelo began work on the colossal figure
  of David in 1501, and by 1504 the sculpture
  (standing at 14 ft 3 in tall) was in place
  outside the Palazzo Vecchio. The choice of David
  was supposed to reflect the power and
  determination of Republican Florence and was
  under constant attack from supporters of the
  usurped Medicis. In the 19th century the statue
  was moved to the Academia.

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astonishing

• Michelangelo is famous for creating the
  ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, as well as the
  Last Judgment over the altar, and The Martyrdom
  of St. Peter and The Conversion of St. Paul in
  the Vatican's Cappella Paolina.

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Sistine Chapel
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Masterpiece

• Michelangelo spent four years painting
  biblical scenes on the ceiling of the Sistine
  chapel. One of the most dramatic images, the
  creation of Adam, shows god bringing the first
  man to life with a touch.

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