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Michelangelo's Influence On Italian Literature And Culture

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Michelangelo is an Italian painter and sculptor from caprease Italy and was born on March 6,1475. Michelangelo was a big impact on Italian literature and culture. Some may say Michelangelo was foolish some may say he was following his heart but either way he accomplished what he dreamed of doing. Michelangelo was less interested in schooling than he was watching painters by nearby churches. His father began to realize he had no interest at all in their family's financial business, so by the age of thirteen his father agreed to apprentice him, to the fashionable Florentine painters workshop. When Michelangelo first got there he was exposed to the technique of fresco. Michelangelo had only spent a small amount of time at the workshop, about …show more content…

Which exposed him to a large amount of prominent poets, scholars and learning humanists. He not only learned about all the aesthetics to life, but anatomy. He received a special permission from his catholic church to study the cadavers into anatomy, but being around the corpses had a reverse affect on his health. At the age of sixteen he created two sculptures, one is “Battle of the centaurs” two “Madonna seated on step”. When Lorenzo the magnificent died, it forced Michelangelo to flee to Bolanga, where he continued to study his work. In 1495 he returned to Florence as a sculptor. When he retired as a sculptor in 1498 he moved away to Rome to continue his fledgling career. Not long after he decided to continue his career did he create his famous statue “pieta” a sculpture of virgin Mary and in her hands dead Jesus across her lap. By time he returned from Florence he had become something of an art star and many people loved him and his work. He took in a lead commission on the statue” David”,which almost 3 other sculptors priored and abandoned, but he still built it and at 17 feet high it conquered and led Florence in a way such as though no other could. He died on February, 18 1564 just before a few weeks away from his 89th

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