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Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simon (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer.
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What was the name of the famous ceiling that Michelangelo painted?
This is the Sistine Chapel in Vatican.
A pietà is a painting or sculpture showing the Virgin Mary holding Christ's dead body. Very many artists have painted or sculpted this subject. The earliest ones are 14th century, and there are examples up to the present day. I suspect, though, that you only know of the one by Michelangelo, It was made about 1499.
What was Michelangelo's most famous statue that was 14 feet tall?
It was a couple of inches taller than the finished sculpture.
What Florentine artist influenced Michelangelo?
Andrea del Verrocchio, born Andrea di Michele di Francesco de' Cioni, (c. 1435 -1488) was an influential Florentine sculptor, goldsmith and painter who worked at the court of Lorenzo de Medici. His pupils included Leonardo da Vinci, Perugino, Ghirlandaio and Sandro Botticelli, but he also influenced Michelangelo. He worked in the serenely classic style of the Early-High Renaissance.
What medium does michelangelo used to sculpt the pieta?
As a true Renaissance man Michelangelo worked in many mediums. He preferred sculpting, but was also a painter, architect, poet and engineer.
Which places in Rome did Michelangelo paint the ceiling?
In the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City in Rome, Italy.
The Sistine Chapel was the name of the chapel in which Michelangelo painted a picture upon the ceiling.
Why did Michelangelo write a hostile poem about the pope?
Because Michelangelo preferred sculpting, but Pope Julius forced him to paint.
Why did Michelangelo's sculpture of Moses have horns on it?
In one of the Greek translations of the Bible, they translated the word for halo or ray of light as horn. Because of this mistake in translation, a few depictions of Moses from this period, are depicted with horns.
In more recent translations of the bible, this mistake was corrected it now describes Moses as having rays of light.
Anyway, the "horns" in depictions of Moses are supposed to be rays of light.
Where did Michelangelo see the Venus De Milo?
The Venus de Milo was not discovered until 1820, so Michelangelo never saw it. He was very familiar with the "Medici Venus" that was in the collection of the Medici in Florence, where Michelangelo studied sculpture as a young man.
What technique did Michelangelo use to give his paintings great depth?
painting and sculptures and he used his hands to do this art
1. Michelangelo was influenced by several notable Humanist thinkers including Urbino during his early days.
2. He went to a humanistic school where he learned the value of human beings and several neoplatonic ideas
3. Grew up in a culturally and intellectually stimulating Florentine environment
4. Was recognized and nurtured by Lorenzo De Medici (who appreciated art, music,etc)
5. His studies of anatomy further increased his awareness/ love of the human body
What did Michelangelo contribute to art?
During the Dark Ages, life revolved around Christianity (in Europe). It would be a considered a sin to produce art such as the art Michelangelo and his peers produced. Michelangelo's sculptures in particular showed human perfection. In Medieval Ages, this would be like a comparing yourself to God. In the Renaissance, the idea of human perfection displayed in art was accepted, and marveled at. Romanesque. Artists (and architects) such as Michelangelo, were inspired of the Classical times of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Many artists incorporated mythological themes of this time into their artwork. Italian Renaissance artists perfected the Classical technique to produce a whole new, and truly amazing kind of art.
Where is the location for the painting the creation Adam?
The Creation of Adam is part of the massive ceiling of the Sistine Chapel done by Michelangelo. The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican in Rome.
Who commissioned Michelangelo to do his most important work?
Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, after the failure of the Popes tomb project (Michelangelo had carved many statues for this tomb when the project was cancelled0. Upon the death of Pope Julius II Michelangelo returned to the service of the Medici popes, Leo X and Clement VII.
What inspired Michelangelo to become an artist?
A lot of his ideas seem to have been influenced by Neo-Platonism
His frescoes were in part influenced by Masaccio and Giotto, whose work he copied when initially learning about fresco painting
His sculpture was influenced by Andrea del Verrocchio among others
Someone who lived at that time was Leonardo da Vinci, the rival of Michelangelo.
Why did Michelangelo present Mary in his Piet?
I think you are confused. The work is called The Pieta and it is Mary holding Jesus when he was taken down from the cross. It is beautiful and today is behind plexiglass in St. Peter's in Rome. When I saw it in the 1970's it was still in the original spot that Michelangelo placed it in St. Peter's. A man came along at one point and smashed it with a hammer so it was moved to safety.
What famous paintings and or sculptures have been stolen and never recovered?
A Vermeer painting called, Concert, 17 years ago from the Gardner museum, in Boston. It has never been recovered. Source: NPR, All Things Considered, 5/31/07.
Why were Michelangelo's sculptures so lifelike?
God has nothing to do with genius, and it would be stupid to think that he did. Genius is scientifically explained.
Michelangelo would probably be considered a genius, but genius is personal opinion rather than something that can be 100% proven. It all has to do with what you think about his accomplishments.
