Michelangelo Buonarroti Research Paper

Among the famous artist of the Italian High Renaissance and intellects was the “father and master of all the arts”, Michelangelo Buonarroti (Biography.com ). Michelangelo was known for a great many things including that of painting, sculpting, engineering, architect, and poetry. He is best known for his ceiling painting in the Rome’s Sistine Chapel, the sculpture of Michelangelo’s David, and the sculpture that helped launch is career, Pieta. Although Michelangelo is well rounded in the practice of arts, he thought of himself primarily as a sculpture (Encyclopædia Britannica). Through reading about his youth, his studies as an artist, and his life and travels, the spirit and birth of Michelangelo’s hunger for sculptures and art will be better understood. Michelangelo was born in Caprese, Tuscany on March 6th, 1475. He was the second of five boys born to his mother and father. His father, Ludovico, was a magistrate to a small village in Italy until his mother, Francesca became very ill. At that time, Michelangelo was still an infant and sent to live with another family (Biography.com ). He was raised in the

Although Michelangelo’s statue of David was not the first created, it is the most famous. The statue was originally supposed to sit high on a buttress of the cathedral in Florence. However, when he completed it, it was thought to be too beautiful not to be placed where everyone could view it. For many centuries it was outside the city hall of Florence on a pedestal until Academia was built. It is now in a room of its own where the rotunda houses the statue (Hull). Michelangelo continued to get called to work on many other commissions including the tomb for Julius II. The tomb was supposed to be a huge monument of three stories, and Michelangelo had plans to complete the tomb in five years. However, he was called several times to work on other commissions which included the Sistine