Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarroti Analysis

PARAGRAPH. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, was painter, engineer, and upon his own words, a sculptor. He put the walls on the Sistine Chapel, and sculpted the beautiful form to the body of David. On March 9th my Humanities course was given the opportunity to be given a tour at the Phoenix Art Museum, in Phoenix Arizona. The reason for this was so that we could have a in person view of the some the period art styles we were studying and have a greater understanding for it. Due to time period some of the styles can be very hard to distinguish between. Seeing pictures in a textbook and on the internet can only go so far when you attempting to between some details that too the naked eye appear very miniscule. During the tour we were presented numerous pieces of art and given a brief history and …show more content…
He used these drawings as the basis for his art and his study where he showed body shape and building construction. Each drawing simple yet very elegant in his pencil strokes. They seem as they were created under control and with a particular finesse nothing out of control in his pencil strokes. But, in these drawings you see other make-ups or layouts within them. In particular, in “Mother and the Child” Michelangelo was moving the legs of the infant , and the the placings of the extremities of the Madonna. These changing compositions key in to the fact that he either wasn't happy with one choice or could not decide on which one to choose. Neither composition really having more emphasis on which choice, or a final chosen one. The chiseled body of the infant also key into the era of the drawing showing it was created during the Italian Renaissance in the year 1522. At the time, art showed emphasis on body structure and perfection. This was due to the rebirth of old Greek and Roman ideas. This classic antiquity carried through all forms the