Michelangelo

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Michelangelo

• Date

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MichelangeloInformation

• Born in Caprese
• Son of Florence
• Born March 6th, 1475
• Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
• Italian Renaissance
• Painter, sculptor, architect and poet
• Considered master of representing the human body

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Early LifeFamily Information

• Comes from a family of bankers
• One of 5 sons
• Father was in government
• Mother died when he was young
• Afterwards, lived with a stonecutter and his wife
  and family in Settignano
• Strong influence on sculpture
• Affinity for the arts
• Artists are laborers, no better than shoemakers.

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Early Life School

• Father sent him to study grammar
• At 13, he apprenticed to Domenico Ghirlandaio
• Learned fresco
• At 14, studied sculpture at the Medici garden
• Ruler of Florence
• Joined famiglia
• Began getting commissions

Domenico Ghirlandaio
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• Began studying anatomy
• Corpses
• Created the Wooden Crucifix

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Professional LifeBattle of the Centaurs

• Earliest sculpture at 17
• Simple, solid forms
• Squarish proportion of figures

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Rome

• Medici died in 1492
• Fell from power
• Found his way to Rome
• Bacchus
• God of wine
• Earliest surviving large-scale sculpture
• Viewed from all sides

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Firenze

• Most talented sculptor of central Italia
• David
• Heroic courage
• Piazza della Signoria
• http//www.italyguides.it/us/florence/michelangelo
  _david.htm

David
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Sistine Chapel

• Commissioned by Pope Julius II
• Repaint the ceiling
• Hesitant at first
• 1508-1512

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Sistine ChapelContent

• Prophets
• Dramatic
• Original framing system
• 9 stories from Genesis

Separation of Light and Darkness
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"After four tortured years, more than 400 over
life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as
Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not
recognize the old man I had become."
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LastJudgment

• End wall of Sistine Chapel
• Directed by Christ
• Largest fresco
• Angels pushing damned down and pulling saved up
  from hell

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Issues

• Target of criticism
• It was mostly disgraceful that in so sacred a
  place there should have been depicted all those
  nude figures, exposing themselves so shamefully,
  and that it was no work for a papal chapel but
  rather for the public baths and taverns."
• Retaliation
• Biaggio (Master of Ceremonies)
• Draperies added

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Final Works

• Devoted himself to architecture and poetry
• Created two pietas (both unfinished)
• Rondanini Pieta
• For his own tomb

Rondanini Pieta
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Michelangelo

• Art originates from inner inspiration and culture
• Masculinity
• Saw nature as an enemy
• Solitary/melancholy
• Bisexual
• Poetry
• Vittoria Colonna

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His Death

• Died February 18, 1564
• 89 Years Old
• Fever
• Will
• Soul to God
• Body to Earth
• Material possessions to his nearest relations
• Buried in Florence
• Father and master
• of all the arts