“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free,” (Michelangelo). Michelangelo had made many achievements and had a long life with a good career. Born March 6,1475, in Coprese. His nickname is “Melancholy Genius”. Melancholy means a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause. He was a painter, sculptor, architect, and poet. He had influenced the developed of Western Art. Michelangelo had a hard childhood with his family being in a small-scale bank in Florence, but the bank failed. He had his mother, Francesca di Neri del Miniato di Siena, and his father, Lodovico di Leonardo di Buonarroto Simoni. Living in a village was hard for Michelangelo. Then when Michelangelo was six his mother died. Michelangelo's
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It is regarded as rememberable for the simple. Another sculpture that he made was the Pieta. The
Pieta statue contains elements which are different and reinforce each other. It has elements like vertical and horizontal, cloth and skin, alive and dead, female and male. Michelangelo also made the Battle of Cascina in 1504. It has a central scene that shows a group of muscular soldiers climbing from a river where they had been swimming to answer a military alarm. In 1508, Pope Julius II told Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel. Another Chapel that Michelangelo did was the Medici Chapel. In 1520 Michelangelo was told to do it. Michelangelo also has wrote many poems from the 1530s to the 1540s. For a while Michelangelo focused on architecture instead of many other things. Even though Michelangelo had achievements what would life be like if he was not in it. Life without MIchelangelo would mean that the development of the Western Art would not have happened. Many things that Michelangelo did would not exist. The Sistine Chapel would not have paint on it or someone else would have done it. Many people use his style of art to make many things but if he never existed then none of the stuff would be made. Sculptures that Michelangelo had made like David would not
It is regarded as rememberable for the simple. Another sculpture that he made was the Pieta. The
Pieta statue contains elements which are different and reinforce each other. It has elements like vertical and horizontal, cloth and skin, alive and dead, female and male. Michelangelo also made the Battle of Cascina in 1504. It has a central scene that shows a group of muscular soldiers climbing from a river where they had been swimming to answer a military alarm. In 1508, Pope Julius II told Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel. Another Chapel that Michelangelo did was the Medici Chapel. In 1520 Michelangelo was told to do it. Michelangelo also has wrote many poems from the 1530s to the 1540s. For a while Michelangelo focused on architecture instead of many other things. Even though Michelangelo had achievements what would life be like if he was not in it. Life without MIchelangelo would mean that the development of the Western Art would not have happened. Many things that Michelangelo did would not exist. The Sistine Chapel would not have paint on it or someone else would have done it. Many people use his style of art to make many things but if he never existed then none of the stuff would be made. Sculptures that Michelangelo had made like David would not