Michelangelo's Impact On Art

    Michelangelo's plays a huge role in the way that art was created during the Renaissance and well into today's society. His painting allow historians to grasp on to many more ideas that were expressed during the Renaissance. He is still one of the most talented human beings to walk this earth. There has been very few that have accomplished what Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni has accomplished in the short life of a human

Michelangelo was 13 he was criticized and motivated by Lorenzo Medici to improve his work,

Although using David as the subject of a piece was something that previous artists had done, Michelangelo’s David became a favorite to the people of Florence when it was unveiled in 1504.The importance of David’s nude body and its positioning is obvious when we remember it was made during the Renaissance. Celebrating the human form and having figures in contrapposto were defining aspects of this period. Aside from being one of the most famous Renaissance artists, Michelangelo is also regarded as one of the greatest artists and sculptors in history. Michelangelo’s David was, and still is, seen as the perfect and ideal image for the human body. The amount of detail able to be seen, from the veins on his arms, to the muscles lining his abdomen, shows how very meticulous Michelangelo was when it came when it came to the human body. He cared so much about correct anatomy that he even studied and dissected a human body to ensure an accurate but even more perfect portrayal of the male figure. The elegance, beauty, and perfection displayed in Michelangelo's David has made it into one of the most recognizable pieces of Renaissance art in history. Many artists have been inspired by him and his artwork, including Gian Lorenzo

Michelangelo (1475-1564) was arguably the greatest artist during the Italian Renaissance period. His talents included sculpting, painting and architect, just to name a few. Michelangelo’s s most popular work was his Pieta and David sculptures and Sistine Chapel ceiling paintings. His works have been carefully preserved over the years for future generations to see his amazing work.

Michelangelo’s Bathers, though a mere sketch for a never-executed fresco, causes an enormous artistic uprising in Florence and its surrounding areas. His “wholly different art” intrigues painters all around Italy, with mixed reactions of fascination and wrath. Talented young artists including Raphael Sanzio and Sebastiano de Sangallo are moved to “start back at the beginning” and rethink their techniques and knowledge of painting (Stone 435). Michelangelo applies this same talent to the Sistine ceiling at the request of Pope Julius II to create his most religious piece of work, a documentation of God’s creation of the world and an illustration of the artist’s belief in God. Michelangelo in essence becomes a self-appointed god himself as he praises His supreme power and pays homage to the Creation. Instead of complying to previously stipulated artistic norms, Buonarroti displays his own trademark of complex nude figures while at the same time combining Greek ideals and Christian morals. Michelangelo also paints the Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel, another selection of his art that was awarded with mixed reactions from the public. Michelangelo’s work in the Sistine chapel was completed in the early and mid-1500’s, but it remains some of the most well-known and respected Renaissance art. Contrary to Lorenzo’s theory that the “finest flowering [arts] of every age are torn down, broken, [and] burned by the next” (Stone 179), the art of Michelangelo survives as a result of his resilient

Therefore one of his grammar school friends Domenico Ghirlandaio realized this and introduced him to the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, his father soon realized he had no interest in becoming a banker, therefore agreed to apprentice him to the fashionable Florentine painter's workshop. Only after a year Michelangelo was offered an extraordinary opportunity to study classical sculpture in the Medici gardens.Michelangelo fled to Bologna after the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent’s death, where he continued his study.In 1495 he moved back to Florence in 1495 to begin work as a sculptor, modeling his style after masterpieces of classical antiquity. In 1498 he moved to rome where he got commissioned by Jean Bilhères de La Graulas, a representative of the French King Charles VIII to the pope, where he did the statue pieta. Upon completion he moved back to Florence where he was now seen as a prominent figure in the art industry, soon after he moved back he started work on the statue of david.After this he really blew up getting asked to do works such as decorating the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and the creation of adam. After a brief illness, Michelangelo in 1564, coincidentally he is one of the only artists during this time to see the popularity of his art during his lifetime. Even though these two have different ways of achieving the point they are today, there's

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was a famous painter, sculptor, architect and poet. He was nicknamed Father and Master of All Arts because he was skilled in all areas of art. Born March 6, 1475, in Caprese Italy, Michelangelo’s parents were Leonardo di Buonarrota Simoni and Francecsa Neri. He was raised in a family whose finical outcome and career choice was banking. He was the second of five sons but as an infant was given to another family since his mother was too ill to nurse him. The woman who nursed him came from a stonecutter family, he later admitted, “With my wet nurse’s milk, I sucked in the hammer and chisels I use for my statues.”

Last we will talk about Michelangelo and his paintings in the Sistine Chapel. Later Michelangelo started painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with frescoes for the Pope. He painted 12 figures on the ceilings edges, these 12 figures were to represent the 12 apostles of Jesus. After many years of working for the Pope while he was old and ill, Michelangelo died at the age of 88 years old. He was currently working on St. Peters Church and only completed the dome and four of the columns before the end of his

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni is considered to be one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance. Michelangelo was a sculptor, painter who was born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese, Italy. He’s family mean of living was due to a banking business. Michelangelo didn’t show interest in the family’s business or school in general. What makes Michelangelo special, is that he was the first artist to be recognized during his life, not post death, including his biography was published when he was still living. Michelangelo created art work with blends of, psychology, physical realism and passion which was a breath of fresh art. This help him be commissioned by some of the wealthiest of men during the Renaissance.

Michelangelo, son of Lodovico di Leonardo Buonarroti Simoni and Francesca di Neri di Menato del Sera, was born on March 6, 1475 in Caprese, Italy. At the age of six, Michelangelo’s mother died and soon after he was sent by his father, to live with the nearby stonecutter’s family. While living with this family he learned to use the tools for stonecutting and developed his skills, which he would later use to perfect many of his own masterpieces. After a few years, at the age of 13, Michelangelo becomes an apprentice for Domenico Ghirlandaio, who was also a revered Renaissance artist for the time. He then spends his time here copying other famous masters and sharpening his skills through these copies. After a few years Michelangelo caught the eye of one of Italy’s largest patrons,

Later, the family returned to France where Michelangelo would be raised. Initially, Michelangelo’s father did not approve of his sons interest of art, but finally when he was 13, he was apprenticed to painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. A year later, he had gotten the attention of Lorenzo de’ Medici, who was amongst the city’s most literate, poetic and talented men. As Michelangelo acclimated himself to Lorenzo’s school, he was introduced by many prominent people who modified and expanded his ideas on art. And may have had an impact about his feelings about his

Michelangelo spent 1489 to 1492, in the Medici estate studying classical sculpture alongside famous sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni; living with the Medici clan allowed him to socialize with the elite individuals of Florence, including fruitful poets, scholars, and seasoned Humanists. Collectively all the influences laid the foundation for what would become Michelangelo's signature style: a combination of classical beauty and humanity. In the few years that he lived with the Medici clan, Michelangelo created two sculptures, the "Battle of the Centaurs,” and the "Madonna Seated on a Step,” at only the age of sixteen. In 1492, after the death of Lorenzo, the Medici family’s power began to disintegrate, causing the young artist to escape to Bologna where he continued his

MichelAngelo is one of the most famous Renaissance artists in the world. But where did he get this brilliant mind? Did MichelAngelo hate his mentors for some of the things they did? MichelAngelo’s early art pieces explain much of his relationships with the Medici.

In 1489 at the age of 14 Michelangelo went to live and study with the Medici family. Living there he had the opportunity to meet important figures of the literary and humanistic scene of that time. Some of the people that became important to Michelangelo were Angelo Poliziano a philosopher, Pico delia Mirandola a poet, Marsilio Ficino and Cristoforo Landino {Dante’s annotator} and also studied under the guidance of a respected sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni {1420-1491} once a student himself of Donatello {1386-1466}. Michelangelo spent two happy years there. During these years, Michelangelo spirit and intellect, had been formed by the humanistic values of the Renaissance but he was also influenced by the Christian believes that were prevalent

Michelangelo Buonarroti was one of the most famous artists of the Italian Renaissance who was born in Tuscany, Italy on March 6th, 1475. According to Accademia, he was a painter, sculptor, architect and poet who had many sculptures including the statue of David. He studied classical sculptor in the Medici gardens, which was owned by Lorenzo the Magnificent, a Florence ruler in 1487; this would make Michelangelo about thirteen years old. In 1508, Michelangelo started his famous work on the Sistine Chapel, which was requested by Pope Julius II who asked if he could paint and decorate the ceiling, according the Accademia; at this time Michelangelo was in his thirties. The chapel is used for ceremonies by the Pope and is also now a part of the Museums of the Vatican in Vatican City. The paintings in the chapel by Michelangelo took four years to complete, and according to Klip (2013) web page, “the ceiling shows nine scenes from Genesis…the northern wall is devoted to the life of Jesus, the southern wall has scenes from the life of Moses, the rear wall consists of The Last Judgment, which is when God judges man, and the ceiling consists of scenes from Genesis, including the creation of Adam”. This relates to the art movement in Michelangelo’s time, which was the time of the Renaissance. According to the Artble (2017), “Beginning in 1508 Pope Julius II was trying to unify the warring factions of what is now Italy under the Catholic Church. As a result he commissioned the