Condivi's Influence On Buonarroti

And it is quite possible that Condivi exaggerated the influence of nature on Buonarroti as an artist as it is quite lacking from his artworks, as he obviously always center his artwork around the human body and its myriad of positions.

Though during the Renaissance they also copied and imitated the classical artworks. Michelangelo is believed to be the only one, in Winckelmann’s opinion, to obtain the classical greek image; but only in his powerful and muscular figures, not in the young and soft ones nor in the female ones which by his hand got transformed in a kind of amazons.

Michelangelo was not very keen on imitating the contemporary artists and it was also quite difficult for him to see the nordic art that could have shaped him quite differently if he ever got the chance to be in contact with it. Still it is always believed …show more content…
The artworks with a cosmological content of the later roman period, as the Giudizio and the Paulina Chapel, present the figures as subordinate to the movement that spins in an unlimited space. Thought he uses a very sharp translation of reality he is also known for his invenzione, at least when he started his works as a young artist.
This could be due to the fact that politics was something much more universal and understandable to everyone at that time. The preciseness he showed in these artworks just reflects his strong beliefs, as well as the non definition of a concrete space and limit in the Giudizio gives us an understanding of the importance of the metaphysical plane in which it develops. The Giudizio has no scenery as a result of Michelangelo’s need to pinpoint the fact that the scene depicted will take place in a divine universe and that it is after all just a matter concerning one’s