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Michelangelo
Michelangelo was one of the greatest artists in the world, providing the base for all artists today, painting everything from the Sistine Chapel and carving the statue of David to building one of the best known domes in the world. Michelangelo started his life in the Italian Renaissance as a painter, sculptor, and architect. His work demonstrated a blend of psychological insight, physical realism and intensity never before seen. He is most known works of art consisted of the sculpture David and the Painting of the Sistine chapel.
He was born in Caprese, Italy in 1475. He had 4 other siblings and was forced into another family of stone cutters due to his mother’s unknown illness. She passed away when he was just 6 years old. After …show more content…

But, instead of doing that Julius asked him to paint the top of the sacred church. This was his first major piece of art, painting the ceiling of the Sistine chapel. His original plan was to paint 12 separate apostles (important Christian teachers). Failing, his painting turned into 300 figures on the sacred space in the chapel. Michelangelo began by painting the Noah scenes over the entrance door and moved toward the altar in the direction opposite to that of the sequence of the stories The inclusion of female figures was very unusual though not totally unheard of. Michelangelo placed these figures around the edges of the ceiling and filled the central spine of the long curved surface with nine scenes from Genesis: three of them depicting the Creation of the World, three the stories of Adam and Eve, and three the stories of Noah. Witch later had to be removed due to a fungal infection witch got into the plaster by one of his assistants. He then fired all of them and completed the 65 foot ceiling by himself. The paintings most recognized feature was god touching the finger of a man, showing the “Creation of Adam”. The whole project took him no less than four years to finish. After the creation of the 65 foot ceiling, he went back and continued to work on the tomb of the pope or the next several …show more content…

Standing an astonishing 14 feet tall the statue and made completely out of marble, and was a part of many other statues that were meant to be put in the niches of the cathedral of Florence. He was only 26 years old when he started the sculpture and took him a little over 2 years to complete the statue. It has continued to serve as the prime statement of the Renaissance ideal of perfect humanity. Although the sculpture was originally intended for the buttress of the cathedral, the magnificence of the finished work convinced Michelangelo to put it at the entrance of the Palazzo dei

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