Michelangelo

The largest sculpture of its time.

katherinemarie : depends what aspect you're looking at... painting : Michelangelo inventions: Leonardo da Vinci anatomy: Michelangelo (he dissected dead bodys to learn more about the body) etc...

the human form

If you mean Michelangelo's David he is holding a stone for his sling.

There are many quotes by Michelangelo where he insists he is a sculptor and not a painter. Marble was definitely his preferred medium. An interesting aspect about the paintings in The Sistine Chapel is the sculptural quality of the images. This does not really show in photographs, but when seen in person one has the feeling that the figures are bursting out of the ceiling and wall.

It was an important sculpture when it was made. It was a symbol for the strength of Florence. David is young but he is also muscular and very strong looking. He is at the moment right before he loads his sling, and his gaze is intent upon the giant he must kill. The skill with which the statue was made is another reason it is so very important.

Carrara marble. Michelangelo used to go to the quarry himself to select his stone.

It is often the case that great artists are extremely poverty stricken and that their work is not fully appreciated or well known until that artist is dead. So, even though he painted a great artwork on a ceiling, he was probably poor.

Michelangelo had 31 works of art, one of which was the Sistine Chapel.

The 'David' in Florence, Italy.

Michelangelo was born March 6, 1475. He died February 18, 1564, at the advanced age of 88.

Young Michelangelo was apprenticed to the Florentine painter Domenico Ghirlandaio.

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You probably mean paintings.

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Donatello was born on 1386 in Florence, Italy. (Date Unknown)

Francesco Grannacci, Sebastiano Luciani, Baccio D.Agniolo

Raphael did. He is not famous as a sculptor, though, but as a painter.

He painted and sculpted and did some architectural jobs as well.

No hobbies, he worked and worked.

As soon as it was finished in 1504.

It showed in his art. As man reaches for God's hand in the center of the Sistine he is the prime example of the Neoplatonic thought that Michelangelo was overtly displaying in his art. In this time it was unthinkable that man could communicate directly with God without the church as middle man.

Botticelli devoted himself purely to painting. His paintings are very ornamental, religious and mythological subjects. He had none of the curiosity which made Leonardo study all kinds of science. Painting alone did not satisfy Leonardo.

Michelangelo is best known for painting the Sistine Chapel; however, some of his other famous works include the statue of David, and the Pieta, a marble statue of Mary holding the body of her son Jesus on her lap. Michelangelo was also the architect of the Laurentian Library and the later stages of St. Peter's Basilica, in Rome.
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and the statue of David

His drawings are mostly preparations for paintings. His painting style is Pointillism or Divisionism, also called neo-impressionism or luminism.