Backround Information The Renaissnce was a time period in which a lot of things occured to shape the world of today. A lot of this shaping was due to two men named Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci. Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and their legacies had a great impact on their time andeven to this day.
Michaelangelo
Michelangelo’s Early Life Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475. His birth took place in Caprese, Italy. Michelangelo was known as a painter, sculptor, architect, and a poet. He was also known as one of the most famous artists in the Italian Renaissance. His full name was Michelangelo di Lodovico Buanarroti Simoni. His father was known as Leonardo di Buonarrota Simoni. During the birth of Michelangelo, his father was briefly serving as a magistrate in a small village with his wife,
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Three years after, the Augustinian monks of Florence San Donato a Scopeto told him to paint “Adoration of the Magi.” He later abandoned both of the commissions and left them incomplete. He then left the city.
In 1482, a Florentine ruler named Lorenzo de’ Medici commissioned da Vinci to create a silver lyre as a gesture of peace to Ludovico Sforza, who had ruled Milan as its regent. After this commission was completed, da Vinci lobbied Ludovico for a job opportunity and sent him a letter barely had mentioned his talents as an artist and focused more on his skills as a military engineer. Using his inventive imagination, da Vinci had sketched war Machines such as war chariots with scythe blades on the sides, an armored tank propelled by two menthat crank a shaft, and an enourmous crossbow that ahd required a small army of men to operate. The letter convinced Luduvico and da Vinci immediatly moved to Milan to begin work as a military engineer that would last 17
Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475 in Caprese, Italy. Michelangelo was known to be one of the best artists during the renaissance. Michelangelo never was interested in school work. He was always amazed by the painters and artist that were around him. Thus, igniting the flame and desire of him becoming a painter, artist, poet and sculptor. At the age of sixteen Michelangelo sculpted two reliefs, Battle of the Centaurs and Madonna Seated on a Step. Two of Michelangelo’s famous works was the Pieta and David. David is meant to symbolize a young, courageous warrior with a bow and arrow ready to take down his enemy. Michelangelo mad David out of discarded stone, a fact which most people are not aware of. Some other works that Michelangelo did
Leonardo da Vinci was a man of many talents, History.com says, “[Leonardo] studied nature, mechanics, anatomy, physics, architecture, weaponry and more, often creating accurate, workable designs for machines...” (Leonardo). Leonardo loved to design and innovate. On their website, The Museum of Science and Industry states, “[Da Vinci] left behind thousands of pages of notes filled with designs, ideas and discoveries” (Leonardo Bio). Furthermore, The contents of these notes had the potential to revolutionize the
However, da Vinci never completed that piece, because he moved to Milan to work for the ruling Sforza clan. He would serve them as an engineer, painter, architect, designer of court festivals and, most importantly, a sculptor. The family asked da Vinci to create a 16-foot-tall equestrian statue made out of bronze. This statue would honor their dynasty founder Francesco Sforza. Da Vinci worked on the project on and off for twelve years. In 1493, a clay model of the statue was ready to display. However, Imminent war meant repurposing the bronze earmarked for the sculpture into cannons. The clay model was destroyed in the conflict following the loss of power of the ruling Sforza in 1499.
Michelangelo also was an Italian artist. He lived from 1475 to 1564. Because he preferred to work alone, Michelangelo refused to have apprentices. Although one of his most famous works is the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he preferred to sculpt. At age 23,
Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, and military engineer which is the perfect example of a “Renaissance man.” With a curious mind, da Vinci studied the laws of science and nature, which greatly informed his work. His ideas and body of work have influenced countless artists and made da Vinci a great influence of the Italian Renaissance.
Michelangelo Buonarroti is a very well known artist from Italy and is know all over the world. He was more than just a painter he was a poet, sculptor, and architect. Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475 to Francesca Neri and Leonardo di Buonarrota Simoni in Caprese, Italy. His family was in the banking business, he was born to the Florentine family of burgher nobility. Early in Michelangelo's life his mother became ill and he was places with a family of stonecutters. He loved going to a local church and watching the painters paint and drawing what he saw, that's where he grew his interest in painting. Michelangelo's friend from grammar school Francesco Granacci introduced him to a painter named Domenico Ghirlandaio.
“A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway. ”-Christopher Reeve. What sets apart a man from a hero is the impact that they had on society whether it’s through science, philosophy, art etc. Only the most sensational of men can fulfill all these achievements and additional ones as well.
Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475 and was born Caprese Michelangelo, Italy. He was known as a painter, architect, poet, sculptor and an engineer at his time. He was known as one of the greatest artist of the Renaissance period. People see him as an equal to Leonardo da Vinci and even Rafael. He was born into a banking family in Florence he lost his mother at an early age after his mother died his father didn’t know what to do so he send him to live with a stone cutter family. Since he didn’t like school to much his father sent him to study with Ghirlandaio that was when he found his talent in sculpting. His father sent him to study with one of the greatest artist Lorenzo de Medici when he was staying there he sculpted his first sculpture
Leonardo had a habit of not finishing what he started. What this means is that when Leonardo was 25 he was hired to create the alterpiece for a chapel in the Palazzo della Signoria. The Palazzo della Signoria is a goverment building. After Leonardo took some money from the job, never, did he produced the work. For much of Da Vinci’s career he depended on the kindness of the patrons. Leonardo worked on many military projects. Particulary sketches of weapons, including a giant crossbow. This crossbow was for the ruler of Milan. Martin Kemp, Leonaredos biographer, Leonardo has around 6,000 pages of
If you look at most of his art work, you can see his feelings he put in to them from his life and his pain in his life time. He was a great arts that had many paintings that had different styles. Many rich families back then wanted Michelangelo to paint for them, and many churches too. He liked being wanted as a painter. The paintings he did were beautiful and amazing to the people that looked at them. Michelangelo was influenced by two men in his life time. He was influenced by Domenico Ghirlandaio who was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Ghirlandaio was part of the so-called "third generation" of the Florentine Renaissance. He was a great influence to Michelangelo. He was born on January 11, 1449, Florence, Italy. He died on January 11, 1494,
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian painter, sculptor, inventor, engineer, anatomist, botanist, writer, and architect in the 15th and 16th centuries. Leonardo da Vinci was born in the village of Vinci, Italy, 25 miles west from the city of Florence on April 15th, 1452. He was the son of Ser Piero and a peasant girl named Caterina. A couple months after Leonardo’s birth, his father took custody of him and began to raise him alone, while his mother had remarried. This left Leonardo with no full siblings, but 17 half sisters and brothers (Museum of Science).
Their work is the link between scientific discoveries and commercial application to develop new products. Many people consider Leonardo as an artist, architect, engineer, inventor and scientist, however, by definition of an engineer, Leonardo doesn’t seem to fit the description. He proposed many scientific theories but didn’t seem to have valid solutions to them. Accordingly, we can see that he applied many mathematical and scientific theories to ‘invent’ the warlike weapon, however, it did not properly function and when tested it did not work.
Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475, in a small Italian city, Caprese, but he spent a large portion of his life in Rome, Italy. It was there that Michelangelo created one of the most famous works of art, the marble sculpture, Pieta. A controversially youthful Mary is seated, holding the dead Christ across her lap. The mother holding her dead
On March 6th, 1475 Leonardo di Buonarrota and Francesca Neri had their second out of five sons in the small village of Caprese, Italy. They named him Michelangelo di Lodovivo Buonarroti Simoni. But soon after being birthed Michelangelo moved to Florence, Italy with his family.
Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was the full name of the famous artist we all call by just his first name Michelangelo. Michelangelo was born on March 6th, 1475 in Caprese, Italy and lived with his parents and four siblings. Michelangelo's mother became sick when he was an infant and he was raised by a wet nurse. In Michelangelo's teen years he would leave school early and go to the church to watch the painted while they worked; his family started to see him as a disgrace as they didn’t see art as a profession he should join(Michelangelo). As he became older he worked more and more with stone over any other type of art and made