Michelangelo
(1475-1564), arguably one of the most inspired creators in the history of art and, with the most potent force in the Italian High Renaissance. As a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, he exerted a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent Western art in general.
A Florentine—although born March 6, 1475, in the small village of Caprese near Arezzo— continued to have a deep attachment to his city, its art, and its culture throughout his long life. He spent the greater part of his adulthood in Rome, employed by the popes; characteristically, however, he left instructions that he be buried in Florence, and his body was placed there in a fine in the church of Santa ...
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with such humanists as Marsilio Ficino and the poet Angelo Poliziano, who were frequent visitors. produced at least two relief sculptures by the time he was 16 years old, the (both 1489-92, Casa Buonarroti, Florence), which show that he had achieved a personal style at a very early age.
His patron Lorenzo died in 1492; two years later fled Florence, when the Medici were temporarily expelled. He settled for a time in Bologna, where in 1494 and 1495 he executed several for the Arca (Shrine) di San Domenico in the Church of San Domenico.
First Roman Sojourn
Michelangelo then went to Rome, where he was able to examine many newly unearthed classical statues and ruins. He soon produced his first large-scale sculpture, the over-life-size (1496-98, Bargello, Florence). One of the few works of pagan rather than Christian subject matter made by the master, it rivaled ancient statuary, the highest mark of admiration in Renaissance Rome.
At about the same time, Michelangelo ...
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in the Piazza della Signoria in front of the Palazzo Vecchio, the Florentine town hall. With this statue Michelangelo proved to his contemporaries that he not only surpassed all modern artists, but also the Greeks and Romans, by infusing formal beauty with powerful expressiveness and meaning.
While still occupied with the David, Michelangelo was given an opportunity to demonstrate his ability as a painter with the commission of a mural, the destined for the Sala dei Cinquecento of the Palazzo Vecchio, opposite Leonardo's Battle of Anghiari. Neither artist carried his assignment beyond the stage of a cartoon, a full-scale preparatory drawing. Michelangelo created a series of nude and ...
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