Michelangelo’s Pieta In 1497, the French ambassador, Cardinal Jean de Bilhères-Lagraulas, commissioned him to carve the famous Pietà, showing the Virgin Mary grieving over the body of her son, Jesus. It is one of the key signature pieces of art from the ‘High Renaissance’ period (1497 ~ 1527). Michelangelo wrote over three hundred poems, sonnets …
Michelangelo In 1488, young Michelangelo was apprenticed to Ghirlandaio, who was coincidentally called upon to do interior art for the Sistine Chapel. He returned to Rome from Florence in 1505, to build statues for ‘The Pope’s Tomb.’ 50 years of interruptions made the task incomplete by the time Michelangelo died. Although he died in Rome …
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564) Nickname: ‘Il Divino’ (the divine one)
Michelangelo’s Last JudgementMichelangelo’s mammoth (nearly 45 by 40 feet) painting ‘Last Judgement.’ The Last Judgment is painted on the Sistine Chapel altar wall in Rome. Michelangelo wrote over three hundred poems, sonnets and madrigals. ‘To the Supreme Being’ by: Michelangelo BuonarrotiThe prayers I make will then be sweet indeedIf Thou the spirit give by which …
Michelangelo’s DavidMichelangelo’s ‘David’ statue is probably the most famous nude man of all time. Few of Michelangelo’s sketches exist, once completed, he often destroyed his designs.The ‘uncensored version of David is further down the page. Michelangelo wrote over three hundred poems, sonnets and madrigals. ‘Dante’ by: Michelangelo BuonarrotiWhat should be said of him cannot be …
Adam and Eve by MichelangeloMuch of Michelangelo’s work in the Sistine Chapel was based on Old Testament Bible stories.Michelangelo wrote over three hundred poems, sonnets and madrigals. ‘Vittoria Colonna*’ by: Michelangelo BuonarrotiWhen the prime mover of many sighsHeaven took through death from out her earthly place,Nature, that never made so fair a face,Remained ashamed, and …
The Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo The Sistine Chapel took approximately four years to complete (1508–1512), the entire ceiling was painted while on his back.Some of the nudity within his artwork was not always apprecited by the religious hierarchy. Today it has been referred to as ‘homoerotic’ but we will never know the personal details of …
The Battle of Cascina by MichelangeloAristotele da Sangallo’s drawing of Michelangelo’s work is all that remains of ‘The Battle of Cascina’ (fought on July 28, 1364 between the troops of Florence and Pisa) and was a planned paired painting with ‘The Battle of Anghiari’ (fought on June 29, 1440 against Milan, painted in 1505) which …
Genesis (Creation of Adam) by Michelangelo BuonarrotiGenesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. The 500 square foot art includes nine stories from The Bible, Adam and Eve, prophets, the creation of Earth, the Moon, the Sun and the Garden of Eden. Many of the central characters were surrounded by beings; muses, angels, …
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