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9 paź 2024 · Michelangelo (born March 6, 1475, Caprese, Republic of Florence [Italy]—died February 18, 1564, Rome, Papal States) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.
Michelangelo’s Pieta and David, along with a few other sculptures, are widely recognized as some of the most important pieces of art ever produced in history. Most people are familiar with him from his work on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, but he also produced other notable works during his career.
Painter, on panel and in fresco, sculptor and architect, writer of sonnets, Michelangelo Buonarroti was the first artist recognised by contemporaries as a genius. Hero of the High Renaissance. He was the only artist of whom it was claimed in his lifetime that he surpassed Antiquity.
Michelangelo: Sculptor, painter, architect, and poet. by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Michelangelo was known as “il divino,” (in English, “the divine one”) and it is easy for us to see why. So much of what he created seems to us to be super-human.
Michelangelo, who relied on Papal patrons and whose friends included members of the reformist spirituali, found himself making art on a knife edge between faith and heresy.
8 paź 2019 · Michelangelo—full name Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni—is often regarded as one of the most impactful artists of the Renaissance period, creating notable works such as the...
Later in Michelangelo's life, he was able to create several Pietas, which reflects different images. The Pieta of Vittoria Colonna, for instance, was a chalk drawing that presented Mary with upraised arms and hands, which indicated her prophetic role.
