Michelangelo (1475

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Michelangelo(1475 1564)

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Michelangelo Buonarroti
...True art is but a shadow of divine
perfection

• Michelangelo was
• born near Florence.
• He was apprenticed
• to the workshop of
• Master Ghirlandaio.
• He studied the
• sculptures of
• Donatello, another
• famous Florentine
• sculptor.

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Key Terms

• Much of Michelangelos work focused on themes
  and ideas that formed during the Renaissance.

Individualism An interest and value of
individual people.
Realism Representing things as they really are.
Humanism the celebration of human achievement
through the study of literature, philosophy and
history.
Anatomy The study of the human body.
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The Pietà
What material do you think it was carved from?

• After his training,
• Michelangelo went to
• Rome where he
• sculpted his first
• masterpiece, The
• Pieta. It was carved from 1498-99.
• This sculpture
• depicted Jesus
• Christ dead in his
• mothers arms.

Who do you think wanted this sculpture made?
Where do you think this sculpture was displayed?
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I
set them free. - Michelangelo
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What words come to mind?

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Pieta 1499Marble Sculpture
Captures the sorrow of the Virgin Mary as she
cradles her dead son, Jesus on her knees
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Free Standing Statue
What words come to mind?
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• 15th century
• Donatellos David the first free-standing nude
  sculpture since Classical times.

16th century ?
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The Sistine Chapel

• Michelangelo always
• preferred sculpting
• to painting, but his
• next work was to
• paint the Sistine
• Chapel.
• Pope Julius II
• wanted Michelangelo to
• create a masterpiece
• that would celebrated
• the glory of God.

• The fresco took four
• years to complete
• (1508 1512).

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What words come to mind?
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What words come to mind?

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Virtual Tour of the Sistine Chapel

• http//www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/
  index.html

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St. Peters Basilica 1546 - 1564

Michelangelo was commissioned to complete the designs for the new Basilica of St Peters in Rome. He died before the dome was completed.
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Master of Arts

• Michelangelo was regarded as the greatest
• geniuses of the Renaissance. He was considered
  
• as the artist who surpassed them all.

Painter
Architect
Poet
Sculptor
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark - Michelangelo
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• Leonardo VS Michelangelo

Choose the greatest Renaissance artist. Explain your answer.