Michelangelo Essay Research Paper During the dates

Michelangelo Essay, Research Paper

During the dates 1475-1564 there were

many famous painters working all around the world. One of

which was Michelangelo. He painted and sculpted many

famous items that are still talked about today. Michelangelo

led a very buisy life, as of which you will be reading about

today. Michelangelo was born in 1475 in a small village of

Caprese near Arezzo At the age of 13 michelangelo.s

father Ludovico Buonarroti placed michelangelo in the

workshop of the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio through

connections with the ruling Medici family. About two years

later michelangelo studied at the sculpture school in the

Medici gardens. Shortly thereafter he was invited into the

household of the Magnincent, Lorenzo de.Medici. Where

he had an oppertunity to converse with younger Medici,

which later became pope Leo X. As he was also

introduced to humanists as Marsilio Ficino and the poet

Politian, who were frequent visiters. By the age of 16

Michelangelo had produced two relief sculptures ,the battle

of the Centaurs and the Madonna of the stairs, which

showed that he had achieved a very personal style at a very

early age. His patron Lorenzo died in 1492; two years later

Michelangelo fled Florence,when the Medici were

temporarily expelled. For a while he was settled in

Bologna, where in 1494 and 1495 he sculpted several

marble statuettes for the arca (shrine) di San Domenico.

Michelangelo went to Rome, where he was able to

examine many newly unearthed classical statues and ruins.

He soon produced his first large sculpture the over life size

Bacchus in 1496-1498. One of the few works of pagan

rather than Christian subject made by the master, it rivaled

ancient statuary, the highest mark of admiration in

Renaissance Rome. At about the samr time period

Michelangelo did the marble Pietà in 1498. It was finished

in 1500. It was one of the most famous works of art, the

Pietà was probubly finished before Michelangelo was 25

years old, and is the only piece of work he ever signed. In

the piece the youthfull Mary is shown seated majestically,

holding the dead Christ across her lap, it was a theme that

was borrowed from northern European art. Instead of

revealing extreme grief, Mary is restrained, and her

expression is one of resignation. In this work, Michelangelo

summerizes the sculptural innovations of his 15th-century

predecessors such as Donatello, while ushering in the new

monumentality of the high Renaissance style of the

16th-century. The high point of Michelangelo.s early style

is the gigantic(4.34m/14.24ft) marble David, which was

produced between the years 1501and 1504, after returning

to florence.The old testament hero is depicted by

Michelangelo as a lithe nude youth, muscular and alert,

looking of into the distance as if he was sizing up the enemy

Goliath, whom he has not yet been encountered with. The

fiery intensity of David.s facial expression is termed

terribilità, a feature characteristic of many of

Michelangelo.s figures and of his own personality. David,

was Michelangelo.s most famous sculpture, it became the

symbol of Florence and originally was placed in the Piazza

della signoria in front of the Palazzo Vecchio, the Florentine

town hall. With this statue, Michelangelo proved to his

contemporaries that he not only surpassed all modern

artists, but also the Greeks and the Romans, by infusing

formal beauty with powerful expressiveness and meaning.

While still occupied with David,Michelangelo was given an

oppertnuity to demonstrate his ability as a painter with the

commission of a mural, the Battle of Cascina, destined for

the Sala dei Cinqueccento of the Palazzo Vecchio,

opposite of Leonardo.s Battle of Anghiari. Neither

Leonardo or Michelangelo carried there assignment

beyond the stage of a cartoon, a full-scale preparatory

drawing. Michelangelo created a series of nude and clothed

figures in a wide variety of posesand positions that were a

prelude to his next majos project, the ceiling of the Sistine

Chapel in the Vatican. In 1505 the Pope Julius II recalled

Michelangelo to Rome for two commissions. The most

important one was for the frescoecs of the Sistine Chapel

ceiling. Working high above the chapel floor, lying on his

back on scaffolding painting for 5 years. Michelangelo

painted, between 1508-1512, some of the finest pictorial

images of all time. On the vault of the of the papal chapel,

he divised an intricate system of decoration that included

nine scenes from the book of Genesis, begining with the

God Seperating Light from darkness and including the

creation of adam, the creation of eve, the temptation and

fall of adam and eve, and

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