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Essay About Michelangelo

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Michelangelo was born in March, 1475 in Caprese. He was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, and poet. He is one of the biggest contributors to the development of Western art today. He was also called “the divine one” and “The Renaissance Man”. Michelangelo’s ancestors before that were small time bankers. The bank that his family was working with failed and his father had to get a temporary governmental job. A couple of months after Michelangelo was born, his family moved back to Florence, Italy. His mother was ill for a long time and died in 1481 when Michelangelo was just six. He then went to go live his nanny and her husband who was a stonecutter in Settignano. Michelangelo began to admire marble in Settignano because his father owned …show more content…

After this Michelangelo was then commissioned to paint the Battle of Cascina, but at the same time Leonardo was also hired to paint the Battle of Anghiara. Both of the paintings came out completely different, Leonardo’s depicted soldiers on horseback and Michelangelo’s depicting soldiers being ambushed while bathing in a river. Unfortunately neither the Battle of Cascina or the Battle of Anghiara was completed and both were lost. Michelangelo was too paint a Holy family for Angelo Doni as a present for his wife Maddalena Strozzi. It is now known as Doni Tondo. It is thought that Michelangelo also may have painted Madonna which is called the Manchester Madonna. When the year 1505 hit, Michelangelo was then invited by the newly invited pope, Julius II back to Rome. When he arrived he was commissioned to build the tomb of the Pope, this tomb had forty statues and was planned to be finished in five years. While working on this huge tomb Michelangelo was constantly distracted by other tasks. This caused Michelangelo to go from finishing it in five years to him taking a whole forty

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