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Donatello's And Michelangelo's David
970 wordsThe pieces of art I will be comparing and contrasting are the three statues of David, by Donatello (Donato di Niccol'o di Bet to Bard i), Michelangelo (Michelangelo di Ludovico Buonarroti Simon i), and Bernini (Gian Lorenzo Bernini). The statues are modeled after the biblical David, who was destined to become the second king of Israel. Also most famously known as the slayer of the Philistine giant Goliath with a stone and a sling. The sculptures are all based on the same biblical hero, but diffe...
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Statue Of David
774 wordsMichelangelo Buonarroti is arguably one of the most inspired creators in the history of art and the most potent force in the Italian High Renaissance. As a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, he exerted a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent Western art in general. Michelangelo was born March 6, 1475, in the small village of Capresenear Arezzo. He lived during the Italian High Renaissance. Although he was born in Cap rese, he lived in Florentine. There he created some...
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Michelangelos Statue Of David
1,377 wordsAwe inspiring is the only way to describe Michelangelos statue of David. Probably the most recognized sculpture in the world, it was created during the three year period between the years 1501 and 1504. During this period in time Europe was going through the Renaissance. The word Renaissance literally means rebirth. During this period in history new interest was sparked in the classical forms of Greek and Roman sculpture. David, from the biblical story of the Old Testament David and Goliath, was...
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View Of Michelangelo's David
1,593 wordsMichelangelo and the Monk I chose to compare Michelangelo's great sculpture of David, and the Exalted Chinese Monk from the Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, at the Seattle Art Museum. These two share many characteristics, yet they are also very much different from one another. Looking at both of them, they seemed to contrast from each other like black and white. While at the same time they seem to compliment each other. The high point of Michelangelo's early style is the gigantic (4.34 m/ 14.2...
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Michelangelo's Organization Of The Sistine Ceiling Frescoes
1,872 wordsThe Italian Michelangelo Buonarotti, almost certainly the most famous artist produced by Western civilization and arguably the greatest, is universally viewed as the supreme Renaissance artist (see Renaissance art and architecture). He created monumental works of painting, sculpture, and architecture and left an additional legacy of numerous letters and poems. Through this vast and multifaceted body of artistic achievement, Michelangelo made an indelible imprint on the Western imagination. A mem...
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Two Different Statues Of David
1,032 wordsWhen I first began comparing the two different statues of David, Bernini's Baroque "David, and "Michelangelo's Renaissance "David" the first thing that came to my attention was the facial features. As you study the face of Michelangelo's "David" there is a sense of calmness to it. There is little or no emotion depicted in his face whatsoever. Here is a man, ready to face a giant with nothing more than a sling, a stone, and his faith in God, yet there is no emotion on his face. No signs of fear, ...
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Michelangelo's David
630 wordsDavid- Power and Authority Michelangelo Buonarotti was born in Florence in 1475 and died there in 1564. To him, sculptures were the "making of men". His emphasis on the human form and content is displayed in all his works; the roundness and natural qualities of the human body are revealed in his sculptures, painting, and architecture. Michelangelo's approach to sculpture is to liberate the human body that was encased into the marble. This conviction and attention to detail produced one of the la...
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Michelangelo's Famous Paintings
702 wordsMichelangelo Buonarroti Michelangelo Buonarroti was one of the greatest artists of all time. He excelled in architecture, sculpture, painting, poetry, and engineering. He was a true Renaissance man who lived a long emotional life. Born March 6th, 1475 in the small village of Cap rese, Italy, Michelangelo was brought up in the village by a "wet-nurse who was the daughter of a stonecutter and married to one" (Bull 9). Michelangelo was not taken back into the family until he was two or three years ...
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Left Hand Of Michelangelo's David
1,348 wordsMichelangelo Buonarroti Michelangelo Buonarroti was born on March 6, 1475 in Cap rese, Italy. At the age of thirteen, he was apprenticed to Domenico Ghirlandaio, who at the time was painting a chapel in the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence. Here, the young Michelangelo learned the technique of fresco. At the age of fifteen, Michelangelo began to spend time in the home and in the gardens of Lorenzo de' Medici, where he studied sculpture under Bertoldo di Giovanni. It was during this time...
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