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  • Michelangelos Sculpture
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    Michelangelo was an optimist in his artwork and his sculptures. Michelangelos artwork consisted of paintings that showed humanity in its natural state. Michelangelos showed optimism in every figure he sculpted. Michelangelos sculpture brought out his true feelings of the world and how he viewed it. Michelangelo was optimistic in completing The Tomb of Pope Julius II and persevered it through its many revisions trying to complete his vision. Sculpting was Michelangelos main goal and the love of h...
  • Michelangelo's Work On The Last Judgment
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    he Last Judgment is the altarpiece in the Sistine Chapel commissioned by Pope Clement VII. The painting proceeds from the viewer's lower left in a circular pattern, with the resurrected presenting themselves before the Christ and the saintly witnesses and then descending to damnation at the lower right. The religious themes and influences in the painting are only partly Christian and include Biblical events synthesized with religious concepts from Michelangelo's contemporaries. These ideas inclu...
  • Known Work Of Michelangelo
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    Michelangelo Buonarroti Michelangelo di Ludovico Buonarroti Simon i, was a very influential man of his time and of all time. Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475, in a small village a part of the Florentine territory known as Cap rese. His father originally did not support his artistic ability, but just a while after Michelangelo's 13th birthday, his father allowed him to be an apprentice for a famous painter, Domenico Ghirlandaio. Unfortunately there was some conflict between Michelangelo and...
  • Enormous Work Michelangelo
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    Michelangelo Michelangelo Buonarroti born March 6, 1475 in the small village of Cap rese Italy. A sculptor, architect, painter, and poet in the Italian high renaissance. Michelangelo's father Ludovico Buonarroti had connections to the raining Medici family, Michelangelo studied at the gardens when he was 15 years old, shortly after he was invited into the household of Lorenzo de' Medici, the magnificent. Michelangelo future was shaped to a large degree by his life in lorenzo's household. Lorenzo...
  • Michelangelo And Renaissance Religion Michelangelo Buonarroti
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    Michelangelo and Renaissance Religion Michelangelo Buonarroti lived in a time when the medieval aspects of Christianity were overwhelmed by the upheaval of the Reformation. His art portrays this change in religious philosophy by discerning the major trends and objectives of the Renaissance. "His works show us... the changing world around him" (Richmond 4). In addition, Michelangelo seriously impacted generations of artists to come. "The Renaissance was a rebirth that led to new ways of thinking ...
  • Influence Of Michelangelo On Rodin's Adam
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    Like some artists, Rodin was not an overnight success. Even though he was rejected numerous times from art schools because of his art style, he prevailed in the end. Rodin, like many artists, got their inspiration from other great and famous artists. In Rodin's case, his inspiration came from Michelangelo. In Rodin's more famous works, one can see the similarities between the two artists' artwork. Rodin's parents were not wealthy, therefore, he was not able to attend an art school of his choice....
  • Early In The Novel Michelangelo
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    The Agony and the Ecstacy depicts Michelangelo's struggle to become the embodiment of Renaissance humanism. In the course of the novel Michelangelo must overcome the interference of his family, religious dogma, political intrigue, papal patronage, military campaigns, and artistic jealousy to realize his artistic ambition. Despite his father's opposition, twelve-year-old Michelangelo becomes an apprentice, first to painter Ghirlandaio and then to Bertoldo, a sculptor, who directs a school finance...
  • Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel
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    Michelangelo Sistine Chapel Ceiling Without question the most recognized work of the Renaissance is Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. Named for Pope Sixtus IV della Rover e (1471-1484), the chapel is simple in shape. Its measurements repeat those given in the Bible for the temple of Solomon. But, despite the Sistine Chapel's structural simplicity, its ceiling is one of the pinnacle achievements in art history. After more than four years, Michelangelo completed his masterpiece ceiling in October of ...
  • High Renaissance Style Paintings
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    The three pieces discussed in this essay are all closely related to popes of the Roman Catholic Church. Michelangelo's The Last Judgment, Raphael's School of Athens and Pietro da Cortona's Glorification of the Reign of Urban V not only have their relation to a particular pope in common, but also are very good reflections of the artistic movements and historical events of the time in which each work was done. Raphael's The School of Athens was a work done on one wall of the Stanza della Seg natur...
  • Early Years Of Michelangelo's Development
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    Renaissance artists expressed their ideas through various approaches and unique styles. To a certain degree, great works can be analyzed and depicted to reveal attitudes that its creators held toward life's character. Michelangelo Buonarroti, creator of masterpieces such as David and the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, is a great figure of the Renaissance worth studying. His character and influences in his life contribute to the changing moods depicted in his artwork and writings. "He wo...

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