Sistine Chapel ceiling

Michelangelo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo https://www.michelangelo.org/ Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarotti Simoni was born on March 6,1475 in Caprese near Arezzo, Tuscany. Died on February 18, 1564 at the age of 88 in Papal States, Rome. He was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. He was the first artist who was recognized during his life…

Facts about Donatello Have you ever wondered how life would be if there would be no art, well, here’s some fun facts I bet you didn’t know about Donatello. He was a sculptor from Florence and he studied classical sculpture he inspired a lot of other artists such as Michelangelo and he also had several assistants, his best known works were mostly statues in a circle. But he developed a new, shallow type of work that had a large architectural relief. Also “Donatello was the son of Niccolo DI…

Donatello, a renaissance man What was the renaissance? The renaissance was a time period when art science and other things flourished. The renaissance itself means rebirth. It was a time when forms of art were becoming more prominent following a time of plague and death. The renaissance inspired and produced a multitude of many great and famous artists such and Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Donatello, Shakespeare and more. These important artists produced some of the most influential art of…

greatness. Under his master Pietro Perugino, Raphael truly absorbed his genius and used it in his early works. Pietro Perugino was truly a master of the renaissance, his most famous work The Delivery of the Keys currently sits on the walls of the sistine chapel and many of his other famous works sit in some of the most famous art museums such as the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and the Louvre in Paris. In Heinrich Wölfflin’s Classic Art: An…

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…

Leonardo and Michelangelo Both Leonardo and Michelangelo were outstanding artists. However, they had different approaches to art. There are differences in their work. One of the differences is that Leonardo was interested in art for the art’s sake while his counterpart Michelangelo did it for wealth notoriety. The second difference is that Michelangelo turned to the art of drawing and sculpture. His art chose to return the art back to the worshiping of human body. His accuracy about human form…

Florence Duomo Historical Background Information Around 1415, Filippo Brunelleschi competed for the chance to build the dome of the Florence Duomo. Florence was home to many talented artists, and all of them entered competitions to build or design various buildings around the city. Just a few years before, Brunelleschi had competed to design the bronze doors on the baptistery, but lost the competition to Lorenzo Ghiberti. Along with Ghiberti and Michelangelo, Brunelleschi built a model of what…

Donatello, the early Italian Renaissance sculptor, was born Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi in Florence, Italy, sometime in 1386. His friends and family gave him the nickname “Donatello.” He was the son of Niccolo di Betto Bardi, a member of the Florentine Wool Combers Guild. Donatello (1386–1466) A sculptor who revolutionized the art in Florence during the early Renaissance. Born as Donato di Niccolo Bardi, he was an apprentice in the workshop of Lorenzo Ghiberti, and assisted Ghiberti in…

subject of exchange, because of the uncertain imagery inside its art. There had been theories that all of the factors of the piece aren’t strictly Christian in nature. The Last Judgment is a prominent portion of Michelangelo’s painting of the Sistine chapel, Michelangelo in addition to other artists had been enormously motivated through the heliocentric view of the universe which were brought by Copernicus: “In assessing sixteenth-century attitudes towards the heliocentric view, the conventional…

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…