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How Did Michelangelo Influence The Italian Renaissance

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The Italian Renaissance was a rebirth in culture and ideas. This rebirth led to the accomplishments of many artists. Many of these accomplishments were influenced by Catholicism. The Catholic faith was portrayed in many artists work. One artist particularly that portrayed Catholicism in his work was Michelangelo. Michelangelo was one of the three most successful sculptors during the renaissance, along with Donatello and Ghilberti. Michelangelo was one of the best artists during the Italian Renaissance, creating some of the most famous pieces to be known to art to this day.

Michelangelo was born March 6, 1475 in Caprese, Italy (“Michelangelo Buonarroti”). Michelangelo’s family lived in a higher rank than most people in Florence, because his family had primarily been bankers (“Michelangelo Buonarroti”). When he was 13, Michelangelo became an apprentice to a painter to Domenico Ghirlandaio, who was the most …show more content…

His last work was the Rondanini Pietà which he worked on from the 1550s until the last days of his life, in 1564. The power of death was revealed in this marble, it is unfinished and was partially mutilated by Michelangelo himself in a fit of depression (Kirwin). “The aged and resigned features of the figure of Nicodemus supporting the dead Christ constitute a self-portrait, the picture of an old and tired believer who willingly accepts the inevitability of his own death and the possibility of his soul's salvation as he contemplates the features of the dead Christ” (Kirwin). In this, his most intimate statue, Michelangelo manifests his deeply moral philosophy, his poetic expression, and the universality of his imagery. He identifies the divine source of that spark of creativity which sculpted him into one of the greatest of all artistic geniuses”

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