Michelangelo Research Paper

Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese, Italy. Born to a family in the banking business, Michelangelo became an apprentice to a painter before studying in the sculpture gardens of the powerful and royal Medici family. What followed was a remarkable career as an artist in the Italian Renaissance, noticed in his own time for his artistic outlook on everything. His works include the David and Pieta statues and the ceiling paintings of Rome's Sistine Chapel, the Last Judgment. He liked to consider himself a Florentine but he really spent most his time in Rome. He died in 1564, at age 88.

Michelangelo, Considered one of the most famous artists of the Italian Renaissance, was born Michelangelo di Ludovico Buonarroti Simoni, in Caprese, …show more content…
There was an immediate problem that the nude figures were inappropriate for so holy a place, and a letter called for the destruction of the Renaissance's largest fresco. The painter struck back by inserting into the work new portrayals of his chief critic as a devil and himself as the St. Bartholomew.Though Michelangelo's brilliant mind and talents earned him the spot of the wealthy and powerful men of Italy, he had his share of negatives. He had a contentious personality and quick temper, which led to bad relationships, between his superiors. This not only got Michelangelo into trouble, it created dissatisfaction for the painter, who constantly looked for perfection but was unable to …show more content…
In his youth, Michelangelo teased a fellow student, and received a blow on the nose that disfigured him for life. Over the years, he suffered increasing infirmities from the rigors of his work; in one of his poems, he wrote the tremendous physical strain that he endured by painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Political dispute in his hometown, Florence also was mad at him, but his most notable enemy was with fellow Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci, who was more than 20 years