The Great Life Of Michelangelo Research Paper

The Great Life of Michelangelo Michelangelo's knowledge in painting, sculpting and drawing influenced the way that western art was interpreted during the renaissance. All of this brought him to be in between the great artist of the Renaissance like Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael. Michelangelo was known as “the divine one” for his sculptures which had set a new standard for painting the human body, one in which he explains that the body was just an actor but emotionally and expressive on its own (“khan academy”). Michelangelo’s work were inspired by the beauty of the masculine and feminine body and face ( “Neret 7”) and he believed that every stone contained a sculpture that just needed sculpting in order to take away all the pieces that were not part of the statue. Michelangelo di Buonarroti ("Michelangelo"), was born on March 6, 1475 at Caprese in Casentino. He was the second of the five kids Francesca di Neri and Ludovico di Buonarroti gave birth. His parents worked to maintain their family of seven, as bankers in Florence but the family was affected by the loss of their mother of a chronic illness when …show more content…
The last judgement was a powerful interpretation of the history of Christian art. This painting contained 300 people in which every character express different emotions some of them were painted to show suffering for those who are going to hell and it also shows Christ choosing the ones who are going to heaven. The last judgement also contained a self portrait of Michelangelo (“Khan academy”). The pieta was assigned to Michelangelo by the ambassador in Rome. The pieta was a sculpture of the Virgin Mary and Jesus, in which the Virgin Mary weeps over the body of Jesus after the crucifixion (“Michelangelo”). This was the only Michelangelo ever signed, because he heard that someone remarked that it was a work of another sculptor (“khan