Research Paper On Michelangelo Buonarroti

If Michelangelo Buonarroti were to paint a picture of a Renaissance gentleman and painter, it would most likely look like himself. He grew up in a moderately wealthy family with him being an apprentice to a painter for the royal Medici family. His life was full of great artistic accomplishments, such as creating the sculpture David, the interior painting of the Sistine Chapel, and probably his most famous painting, The Last Judgement. The legacy that Michelangelo Buonarroti left behind for the future generations was the resides in all of his best painting and sculptures, which people still pay to see everyday. Michelangelo Buonarroti, or just Michelangelo, was a Renaissance sculptor and artist who was one of the most revered of his time, only behind Leonardo da Vinci in terms of recognition for his work and overall diversity with his career accomplishments. Michelangelo Buonarroti had quite a relaxed life a Renaissance citizen. When he was around ten, his father took him to Florence and forced him to learn Greek and Latin, but he loved to run away and watch other artists perform their craft while he would do some sketching of his own. After three years of arguing and beating, his father sent him to apprentice a Florentine artist. His close and distant family consisted of a lot of wealthy bankers, which lead him into the career path of art, into apprenticing in the gardens of the prestigious Medici family. Around this time, another boy by the name of Torrigiano had gotten jealous of Michelangelo’s talent, and then when he was taunted, he hit Michelangelo straight in the nose. This is what inspired him to study human anatomy. Then, his talents were noticed, and he was undertaken by the ruler of the city. He stayed there for awhile, until the Medici family was overthrown, and by then he had already left. This is the beginning of when his career began to take off. Very late in the 1400s is when he began to make some truly memorable works, such as Bacchus and others. These works were his jump start into his illustrious career. After his first true masterpiece, Bacchus, he began to dabble in the finer parts of …show more content…
In this chapel, he painted over 5000 square feet of frescoes on the ceiling. Millions of people still visit the Sistine Chapel, a lot of them for the sole reason of seeing the marvelous works of Michelangelo Buonarroti across the whole place. Michelangelo Buonarroti, or the “father and master of all arts” left behind so much for everybody to see. He had left a large part of western artistic civilization that was studied and revered to this day. Although he never invented anything, like Leonardo, he was still regarded as a genius of his time, and one of the greatests artist who ever lived. His art is still avidly visited by millions of tourists every year, due to the immaculate understanding of human anatomy and highly complex drawing techniques. Throughout his long eighty eight year life, he accomplished so many things, not only in the artistic field, but many things as a scholar. Without all of his amazing accomplishments, many things would be different today. Museums would have an empty void where his work would and should be, artists would have one less inspiration to look up to, and the Sistine Chapel would be artistically empty