Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni first declared himself a sculptor before he was an architect, a poet, an engineer and lastly a painter of the High Renaissance era. Michelangelo was known to the general public and high society as an artist who created groundbreaking works of art and held exceptional influence over Western art for years to come. One of his works of art that held revolutionary influence was the statue of David, this statue stood over 17 feet high and even higher on it’s…

Picasso: Good morning everyone! Welcome to the PastArt Studio where we interview artists from the past. Here with me today is the famous Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. Raphael was born in 1483 and died 1520 So Raphael! What was life like for you as a Renaissance artist? Raphael: Well Picasso, I was a painter and an architect in the 15th century and I ran a large workshop and even though I died so young, I left a lot of my art work. Many of my pieces are found in the Vatican Palace.…

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni made contributions that helped make the time period of the 1500’s artfully beautiful. He was never interested in school as a young child and spent his time overseeing painters working at the church and imitating the drawings. His father took notice and believed he had talent, so at the age of 13 he decided to put him into the Florentine painter’s workshop, which he was shown the fresco technique. With just a year at the workshop a chance that most…

David, one of Michelangelo's most famous and prominent statues, portrays the second king of Israel, born in bethlehem, dying in Jerusalem, altogether a very important biblical figure. Michelangelo was commissioned by the Florence cathedral to represent a hero of the bible. Michelangelo portrayed him in the nude because it was typical in ancient greece to display the purity of the body. Although secular art was popular during the renaissance, this piece was highly religious, but shows proportion…

Arts Communicate The Sculpture of the Pietà by Michelangelo and the Painting of The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci are both famous artworks from the High Renaissance period. The Mona Lisa was created between 1503 and 1506, and the Pietà was created between 1498 and 1499. The Pietà is currently housed in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, and the Mona Lisa is currently housed in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The sculpture of the Pietà by Michelangelo shows the “Virgin Mary holding the dead body…

As Giovanni’s painting career progressed, his style and skills progressed as well. In 1501, Giovanni was asked to paint the portrait of the doge Leonardo Loredan. A doge was the chief magistrate of Venice, who would be elected by the aristocracy and would rule for life. Doges were always highly respected by the city, and it was Venetian tradition for the doges to have a painted portrait. Leonardo Loredan asked Giovanni to paint his portrait after Giovanni had done other paintings in the Doge’s…

Michelangelo Buonarotti is enormously viewed as a standout amongst the most compelling craftsmen of the Renaissance. He is optically peddled as an indistinguishably equivalent to Leonardo da Vinci and Rafael. He was a genuinely a Renaissance man, an artist, a craftsman, a stone carver and an engineer. A renaissance man is a man who is learned or capable in a mixed bag of fields. Indeed past his sublime painted creations and models, Michelangelo was kenned for his verse, his building design…

Raphael's famous painting The School of Athens is the most praised bits of artwork from the age of the Renaissance. The fresco was painted in the High Renaissance of Humanism and is the perfect encapsulation of the established classical spirit. Raphael's "School of Athens" is considered by numerous modern art historians to be irrefutably the masterpiece of the Renaissance. The school of Athens symbolizes the hypothesis that set the support for the modern thinking. In the three stories,…

Do you ever wonder why Leonardo Da Vinci was important to the Renaissance times besides for his artwork? This essay will go over his personal life, inventions and contributions, what society was like during the Renaissance times, and his personalities. Caterina Da Vinci gave birth to Leonardo Da Vinci on April 15th, 1452. He was born during the Renaissance times in the Italian city of Vinci. Leonardo was one of the most highly admired and important people of the Renaissance. He was very much…

Michelangelo di Lodovico Bunonarroti Simoni was born March 6, 1475 and died February 18, 1564. He is considered to be one the most famous and successful artist from the Italian Renaissance. Michelangelo was a painter, sculptor, architect as well as a poet. Michelangelo’s Sculpture of David is a magnificent testimony of the art and where people were at, at this time in the early Renaissances. Michelangelo’s works were claimed to be better than anyone else’s and that no other artwork could…