Michelangelo 2
Michelangelo 2Michelangelo Buonarroti born March 6, 1475 in the small village of Caprese Italy. A sculptor, architect, painter, and poet in the Italian high renaissance. Michelangelo's father Ludovico Buonarroti had connections to the raining Medici family, Michelangelo studied at the gardens when he was 15 years old, shortly after he was invited into the household of Lorenzo de' Medici, the magnificent. Michelangelos future was shaped to a large degree by his life in lorenzo's household. Lorenzo was a dominant figure in the city. "Before he begins to speak, his eyes speak for him" a Venetian envoy wrote. By Lorenzo's fathers time the name Medici had become so indelibly associated with the arts that when a friend seeked a way to please its members, he commissioned Botticelli to execute "the Adoration of the Magi" the three wise men in the painting are supposedly Lorenzo's grandfather, father and uncle. Lorenzo and his brother Giuliano are also pictured in the painting. When Lorenzo died in 1492 at the age of 43 Michelangelo was intended to design to tomb but he left Florence for good in 1534 only the Ducal tombs had been designed. Lorenzo (the magnificent) and his brother Giuliano lie disregarded on a cassone or chest, opposite the altar. Michelangelo designed the tombs for Lorenzo de Medici Duke of urbino and Guiliano de Medici Duke of Nermours. The two complex tombs were conceived as representing opposite types: Lorenzo, the contemplative, introspective personality; the Giuliano, the active, extroverted one he put magnificent nude representations of dawn and dusk beneath the seated Lorenzo, day and night beneath Giuliano. Work on the Medici tombs continued long after michelango went back to Rome in 1534, he never returned to his native city.
In 1505 Michelangelo was called back to Rome by Pope Julius II in for two commissions. The most important one was for the frescoes of the Sistine chapel ceiling. Working lying on his back on scaffolding. Michelangelo painted between 1508 and 1512 some of the finest pictorial images of all time. On the vault of the papal chapel, he devised an intricate system of decoration that included nine scenes from the Book of Genesis, beginning with God Separating Light from Darkness and including the creation of Adam, the Creation of Eve, the Temptation and Fall of Adam and Eve, and the Flood. In order for him to prepare for this enormous work Michelangelo drew numerous figure studies and cartoons, devising scores of figure types and poses. These images, demonstrating Michelangelo's masterly understanding of human anatomy and movement, changed the course of painting in the west.
Before the assignment of the Sistine ceiling in 1505, Michelangelo had been commissioned by Julius II to create his...
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