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    the Black Death killed thousands of Europeans. That chaos caused art to be slowly forgotten. In 1475, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born. Michelangelo showed his extreme knowledge and talent in his many wonderful works of art and literature that are still marveled at today. He was a painter, architect, poet, and sculptor that was also called “The Master of All Arts.” Michelangelo showed to be the most significant Renaissance Artist. He was a talented artist because he showed…

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    most remarkable and breath taking projects. The production of the restoration of the Chapel was no easy feat. The artists confronted dilemma’s along the lengthy journey but were able to strive to the finish line(Seymour, Charles,1972). Although Michelangelo was a significant contributor in the project, it wasn’t until…

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    2007:577), the beginning of Humanism and “economic prosperity” (Kleiner 2007:577) nourished the beginning of the artistic culture, the Renaissance. It was a period where great, ambitions projects were made through famous artists: Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo (Harris & Zucker © 2016). It was the rebirth of the classical art. According to the High Renaissance Art article on an online source, the High Renaissance was “represents the accepted apogee of Renaissance art - the period when the…

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    The start of the 16th century is known as the High Renaissance, It is most famous for the Italian Art Masters such as Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael. These remarkable artists made art no longer a craft being made by craftsmen, on the contrary art became an almost noble like statues, something perceived as valuable and glorious. These Italian master arose in the time when Italy was in need of prestige and honorable buildings and in a time were artists no longer had to accommodate to the…

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    going to do here. On March 6, 1475, in Caprese, Italy, Michelangelo Buonarroti was born into a family in the banking business. Michelangelo was more interested in watching painters at nearby churches than in formal education as a young boy. He first became an apprentice of a painter, Domenico Ghirlandaio, at the age of 13. Then later, Michelangelo studied in the sculpture gardens of the Medici family. Following his training, Michelangelo became a leader in the Italian Renaissance, completing…

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    “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free,” (Michelangelo). Michelangelo had made many achievements and had a long life with a good career. Born March 6,1475, in Coprese. His nickname is “Melancholy Genius”. Melancholy means a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause. He was a painter, sculptor, architect, and poet. He had influenced the developed of Western Art. Michelangelo had a hard childhood with his family being in a small-scale bank in…

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    Leonardo da Vinci’s influence spreads over several hundred years and several continents, not just his renown, like Michelangelo. His ideas and inventions changed the course of science and engineering. Da Vinci studied so many broad fields and still “mastered” most of them with relative ease. “He filled notebooks with data and drawings that also reveal his other scientific…

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    For example, Pope Pious III asked Michelangelo to redesign a common area between two existing buildings. In c173, the “Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius” was built during the Aurelian art period. Therefore, in c1540, Michelangelo had to implement the dominating statue in “Capitoline Hill.” The floor area is encompassed in an oval, not a circle because it alters the viewers’ perspective…

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    Mixing the colors of Titian and sketches of the great Michelangelo, Tintoretto brought an awe inspiring new air to the art of the Renaissance with his innovative ideas combined with the works of older Renaissance masters. He created many works over the course of his lifetime, and through those works Tintoretto portrayed some of the most prominent themes in the fine arts of the Renaissance. With outstanding contrast and color usage mixed with an amazing skill in creating accurate and realistic…

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    Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was first and foremost an Italian sculptor, as well as, a painter during the High Renaissance. His piece entitled Pietà was created between the years of 1498–1499 in St. Peter’s Basilica (Kleiner). Gian Lorenzo Bernini was also an Italian sculptor and architect, but during the Baroque period. The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa was finished in 1652 for the Cornaro family chapel in Santa Maria della Vittoria (Kleiner). Though there is complexity in the…

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