Artist
Michelangelo
Also Known As Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475 to 1564) was a Florentine sculptor, painter, and architect whose work in marble, including the David and the Pieta, and in fresco, above all the ceiling and altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, made him one of the most influential artists of the Italian Renaissance. Trained in Florence and steeped in the study of classical sculpture and human anatomy, Michelangelo regarded himself first as a sculptor and approached even his painting with a sculptor's attention to the modeled human body. His David, carved from a single block of marble between 1501 and 1504 for the city of Florence, became an emblem of Florentine civic pride, while the Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted for Pope Julius II between 1508 and 1512, remains one of the most studied works in Western art. In his later years he turned increasingly to architecture, designing the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, left incomplete at his death and finished largely to his design by later architects. Michelangelo worked well into his eighties, and his long career is often divided by art historians into distinct phases reflecting the shifting artistic and political climate of Renaissance and Counter Reformation Italy.
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BirthplaceCaprese, Republic of Florence 2 Active From YearDated from his 1488 apprenticeship to Domenico Ghirlandaio to his death. Active To Year TrainingApprenticed in 1488 to the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio in Florence. 2 FAQs
Who did Michelangelo apprentice under as a young artist?
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Michelangelo was apprenticed to the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio in Florence in 1488, at the age of thirteen. This placed him in one of the leading fresco workshops in the city at the very start of his training, before his focus shifted toward sculpture, the medium in which he later became best known.
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Mannerism, Movements Why this is disputed. Michelangelos late style, especially the Sistine Chapel Last Judgment, is widely but not universally cited by art historians as a direct precursor to Mannerism.
In Movement
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David, Works Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)
Source Doni Tondo (Wikipedia)
Source Epifania (Wikipedia)
Source Leda and the Swan, Michelangelo (Wikipedia)
Source Prophet Daniel (Michelangelo) (Wikipedia)
Source Prophet Isaiah (Michelangelo) (Wikipedia)
Source Prophet Jeremiah (Michelangelo) (Wikipedia)
Source Prophet Joel (Michelangelo) (Wikipedia)
Michelangelo served as chief architect from 1546 and designed the dome; the building also involved Bramante, Maderno and Bernini across its long construction.
Source Separation of Light from Darkness (Wikipedia)
Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)
Source Study of a Kneeling Nude Girl for The Entombment (Wikipedia)
Source The Conversion of Saul (Michelangelo) (Wikipedia)
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Source The Crucifixion of Saint Peter (Michelangelo) (Wikipedia)
Painted by Michelangelo, 1536-1541.
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The Sistine Chapel ceiling (Italian: Soffitto della Cappella Sistina), painted in fresco by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is a cornerstone work of High Renaissance art.
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1. Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Fred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner), Cengage Learning- chapter on the High Renaissance, section on Michelangelo
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Trained in Florence and steeped in the study of classical sculpture and human anatomy, Michelangelo regarded himself first as a sculptor and approached even his painting with a sculptor's attention to the modeled human body.
- In Movement: Renaissance, chapters on the Italian Renaissance
- Works Created: Sistine Chapel Ceiling, chapter on the High Renaissance, section on Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel ceiling
- Practices: Painting, chapter on the High Renaissance, section on Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel ceiling
- Practices: Architecture, chapters on architectural history across periods, including Michelangelo's design for St. Peter's Basilica
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Caprese, Florence
Michelangelo article, biography section
apprenticed to the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio
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Michelangelo article, lead sentence
6 March 1475 - 18 February 1564
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Peter's was to influence the building of churches for many centuries, including Sant'Andrea della Valle in Rome and St Paul's Cathedral, London, as well as the civic domes of public buildings and state capitals across the United States.
Michelangelo article, infobox birth_name field
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Mentored By: Domenico Ghirlandaio, Early life section
In 1488, at the age of 13, Michelangelo was apprenticed to Ghirlandaio.
Associated With: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo article, lead section
Michelangelo's creative abilities and mastery in a range of artistic arenas define him as an archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and elder contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci.
Associated With: Domenico Ghirlandaio, Apprenticeships, 1488-1492 section
In 1488, at the age of 13, Michelangelo was apprenticed to Ghirlandaio.
Works Created: The Creation of Adam, Works section, Sistine Chapel ceiling subsection
One of the central images, The Creation of Adam is one of the best known and most reproduced works in the history of art.
In Group: Renaissance and Mannerist Sculptors, Lead
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475-18 February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkPractices: Drawing, Heilbrunn Timeline: Renaissance DrawingsView the Source Leda and the Swan, Michelangelo (Wikipedia)
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Leda and the Swan is a lost tempera on canvas painting by Michelangelo, produced in 1530, but now only surviving in copies and variants. The work depicted the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan.
The Conversion of Saul (Michelangelo) (Wikipedia)
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The Conversion of Saul is a fresco painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti (c. 1542-1545). It is housed in the Pauline Chapel (Capella Paolina), Vatican Palace, in Vatican City. This piece depicts the moment that Saul is converted to C
Separation of Light from Darkness (Wikipedia)
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The Separation of Light from Darkness is, from the perspective of the Genesis chronology, the first of nine central panels that run along the center of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling and which depict scenes from the Book of
The Crucifixion of Saint Peter (Michelangelo) (Wikipedia)
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The Crucifixion of Saint Peter is a fresco painting by the Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti (c. 1546-1550). It is housed in the Cappella Paolina, Vatican Palace, in the Vatican City, Rome. It is the last fresco e
Prophet Jeremiah (Michelangelo) (Wikipedia)
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The Prophet Jeremiah is one of the seven Old Testament prophets painted by the Italian High Renaissance master Michelangelo (c. 1510-12) on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. The Sistine Chapel is in Vatican Palace, in the Vatican City.
Prophet Joel (Michelangelo) (Wikipedia)
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The Prophet Joel is one of the seven Old Testament prophets painted by the Italian High Renaissance master Michelangelo (c. 1508-1512) on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. The Sistine Chapel is in Vatican Palace, in the Vatican City. Th
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica editors, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.Practices: Fresco, Fresco Painting, Sistine Chapel ceiling 1508-1512View the Source Prophet Isaiah (Michelangelo) (Wikipedia)
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Michelangelo
Doni Tondo (Wikipedia)
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Michelangelo
Epifania (Wikipedia)
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Michelangelo
Prophet Daniel (Michelangelo) (Wikipedia)
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Michelangelo
Study of a Kneeling Nude Girl for The Entombment (Wikipedia)
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Study of a Kneeling Nude Girl for The Entombment is a drawing of c. 1500-1501 by Michelangelo, now in the Louvre Museum.
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