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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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Who was michelangelo's mentor?
Gian Giacomo de' Caprotti, also called Salai, was the most famous.
Also Francesco Melzi.
When Leonardo died, he left his all his paintings that were in his possession (including the Mona Lisa) to Salai and all of his precious notebooks to Melzi.
Salai is the model for Leonardo's painitng of St John the Baptist. Do a search for the image if you'd like to know what he looked like.
Look at Michelangelo's Creation of Adam. What makes this painting typical of Michelangelo's work?
The CORRECT ANSWER IS "it shows anatomical features in detail"
Michaelangelo created all what works EXCEPT?
The question asks about the "following". In such circumstances would it be too much to expect that you make sure that there is something that is following?
Why might someone start seeing the clouds in the sky as Michelangelo's art?
When human beings bring new experiences to the ordinary, the following are possiblities 1- They are creative 2- They are under the influence of some chemical that alters their perception 3- They are experiencing a psychological upheaval or re-organization: eg. in affective experiences (that do not necessarily have to be an illness at all) or in an epilepsy (hightened brain activity especially in temporal lobe) It is thus important to know 1- How the long the experiences lasts, its frequency and the association with substance use if any 2- The apptitude of the person: go for an assessment of creativity: this person maybe very gifted 3- An EEG maybe of use: An EEG is an Electroenchapologram: it portrays electric brain acitivity. Having said all this, it is important to stay human, capable of creativity and experiencing what we all pass by without noticing as meaningful and a source of joy. So: 1- If this is a short episode of hypomania: enjoy it, learn to make use of it, and anticipate it when it comes 2- If the EEG reveals hightened activity, this does not automatically mean it is pathological: 25% of people have an abnormal EEG without any manifestations. Take care
What did Michelangelo's mother want him to be when he grew up?
Michelangelo's mother died when he was only six years old. Perhaps she wanted him to be a banker like his father, but no one really knows.
His father sent him to school at an early age to study grammar, but Michelangelo showed no interest in it and preferred painting and drawing. His father did support him, however, and got him an apprenticeship with a respected painter when he was only thirteen years old.
Michaelangelo was never married and he had no children. He was homosexual.
What were the circumstances of Hammergren's life?
grew up in a tiny community in Minnesota in a family to which he attributed his strong moral and ethical values as well as his knowledge of business. His father, a traveling salesman in the healthcare business
In antiquity there were many scultures made of Marsyas. Recently, Anish Kapoor's sculpture for the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, is called Marsyas.
They used the nude as a subject matter, depicting its beauty and strength.
How did Pope Julius II achievements changed the world?
He forced Michelangelo to paint instead of sculpting, and made Michelangelo study nature and science for most of his life.
David who?! David Flair? He retired from wrestling a long time ago. Another David perhaps?!
What does Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven mean?
The love of God that releases the soul into eternal life and allows the human body to die.
Are Michelangelo Buonnaroti and Caravaggio the same artist?
Michelangelöerisi da Caravaggio was born in 1571. He cannot be the same artist as Michelangelo Buonarroti, born in 1475 and dead 1564. Unless you believe in transmigration.
Popes Julius II, Leo X, Clement VII, and Paul III. Also the Medici family in Florence (other than the two Medici popes).
Did Michelangelo belong to any important period of art?
Michelangelo was one of the great Italian painters and sculptors of the Renaissance . He had the Medici family as sponsors of his work and painted the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. He sculpted the statue of David located in Florence, Italy and the Pieta in St. Paul's in the Vatican. Not to mention other works of art done in his lifetime. Titian, another Renaissance painter, worked for a time with him in his workshop. Michelangelo's style and paintings are an important part of art history. His figures display the muscles and movements of real people unlike other painters before him. The figures in the Sistine Chapel seem to move and are three dimensional even though they are 70 feet overhead in a vaulted ceiling. His art shows man in contact with God, opposite of the teachings of the Church, and that man could communicate with God without the Church. This was the new thought of the Renaissance and the new growth in thinking. Once he was asked how he thought of the sculpted figures he carved and he replied " The figure is all ready in the stone. I just free it." His marble statues show muscles and movement unlike any other. The face of Mary in his Pieta displays the sadness of the death of Jesus as he lays across her lap. You can see the consternation of David as he thinks about the battle to come with slingshot in hand. There is movement in the fabric of the statue as it folds and crumbles as real fabric does in life. On his death bed , at 75, he stated " Iam still learning." Michelangelo was truly one of the world's greatest painters. If you are lucky maybe one day you can see his work. To stand under the Sistine ceiling is an experience you will never forget. It stays with you. It changes you.
Why is Michelangelo important?
He supported the semi-religion of learning and the arts. He showed this by painting the murals on the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo Buonarroti was born on March 6, 1475 in the village of Caprese, Italy. He was one of the most important artists of the Italian Renaissance, a period when the arts and sciences flourished. Michelangelo became an apprentice to prominent Florentine painter, Domenico Ghirlandaio at the age of 12, but soon began to study sculpture instead. He attracted the attention and patronage of Lorenzo de Medici, who was ruler of Florence until 1492.
At age 23, Michelangelo completed his magnificent Pieta, a marble statue that shows the Virgin Mary grieving over the dead Jesus. He began work on the colossal figure of "David" in 1501, and by 1504 the sculpture (standing at 4.34m/14 ft 3 in tall) was in place outside the Palazzo Vecchio. The statue became a symbol for the new republic that had replaced Medici rule.
Michelangelo portrayed David partly as the ideal man, partly as an adolescent youth. Unlike predesessors by other sculptors which depict David with the grissly head of the giant under his foot, Michalangelo poses David at the moment he faces the giant, with the deed before him. He believed this was the moment of David's greatest courage.
From 1508 until 1512 Michelangelo worked on his most famous project, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. He had always considered himself a sculptor and resisted painting the Sistine with characteristic vehemence: "I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint." Only the power of the Pope Julius II forced him into the reluctant achievement of the world's greatest single fresco. He covered the ceiling with paintings done on wet plaster, showing nine scenes from the Old Testament. Michelangelo later painted "The Last Judgment" on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel.
Toward the end of his life, Michelangelo became more involved in architecture and poetry. In 1546 he was made chief architect of the partly finished St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, where the Pieta is now kept
