Michelangelo

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.

A renaissance man is a person who is multi talented. Them two above were multi talented. they had skilled beyond anyone at the time of the renaissance.

The are renaissance citizens but the suffix men/women is added to prove their ability of knowledge.

he made pretty pictures

They were both renaissance artists and painted around the same time (Leonardo was 23 years older than Michelangelo but they did meet). They are both believed to have been homosexual and both were fascinated by the human body (especially the nude male) they both studied human bodies in close detail and would dissect dead bodies to study them (although this was illegal and had to be done in secret). They were both very intelligent and very good artists (and in michelangelo's case sculptor too). They both painted religious scenes...eg. Leonardo's the last supper and michelangelos Sistine chapel ceiling. They would have both admired each others works, although Leonardo disliked Michelangelo as a person when they met (Leonardo considered Michelangelo to be "rude").

So they had a lot in common.

Their main differences was that Michelangelo was mainly a sculptor and Leonardo considered painting a higher profession than sculpting. In fact he once made a joke about how sculptors were always dusty and dirty which michelangelo was angry about. Also they had different personalities: Da Vinci loved to joke and was very sociable. However, Michelangelo is believe to have been a very lonely character who liked to work in solitude and had a foul temper and would often storm off. Also da Vinci loved nature and considered nature to be greater than human life and knew that we could never trully understand nature...however michelangelo saw nature as an obstacle that had to be overcome in his painting.

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so how does he impact society today? for some reason, art historians and artists are rather obsessed with him as a person. he left behind quite a few poems and letters, from which we know a lot about what he was like. He's one of the first artists that we know SO much about... because just 50 or 100 years before his time, artists didn't even sign their works. in fact, he may have been one of the first to do so. .. though i can't find a source for that.

The renaissance was THE FIRST time that artists were known as individuals. before then, they were craftspeople, whose names were rarely attached to their work and rarely were they celebrated or paid well. Michelangelo had 2 biographies written about him WHILE HE WAS STILL ALIVE. in the renaissance, artists were well known and paid well to make art for the vatican or important families like the demedici. Today we still venerate the individual... we still love to read about artists, maybe not everybody reads about sculptors, but actors, actresses, and movie directors are artists too. we actually take it to great excess. Wouldn't you say in today's society that artists should "find their own unique voice"? this was hardly valued at all just a generation before michelangelo.

the other way he impacts society, i think, is in being skilled at many things. he was an architect, a painter, a sculptor, a poet. he wrote sonnets before shakespeare did. generations of people have looked to people like michelangelo and davinci, and this is where the term "renaissance man" comes from... someone who is well-rounded and talented at many things.

Outside the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. There is a copy now.

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

Leonardo da Vinci worked in a variety of media. His numerous sketch books are one media, he used oil paints and fresco and sculpted marble.