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    At the High Renaissance period of time, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti was a sculptor, painter, and also considered to be one of the greatest artists of the Italian renaissance. Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese Italy. Michelangelo father worked for the Florentine government, but his parents went back to Florence after his birth. Michelangelo did a couple of great sculpture, relating to the Renaissance such as The Pieta’. Michelangelo the Pieta’ is a 5-foot, 8-inch sculpture

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    of Michelangelo’s artistic manifestations, be it strict artistic creations or poems, shows us what he intended and believed as a whole. For Michelangelo you could not separate the fact that he believed in God from the images he had to portray, but this was also a product of his time as he lived in a territory ruled by the Vatican. The work done by Michelangelo during all these years are a testament of his own resilience, and this he also wrote about in a veiled manner when he depicted himself as stone

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    Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti Renaissance Writing The two most influential artists during the Renaissance were Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti. Leonardo da Vinci was born on 1452 in the town of Vinci, Italy. During his early life, he goes to Florence and is apprenticed to Verrocchio. After three years he becomes a master and does a piece of art so beautiful and so unusual that is teacher retires. His favorite type of art was painting, but he was also a skilled drawer

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    has a multitude of art galleries that hold a variety of art pieces that have their own share of stories. The artwork that I chose to dig into the story of is a piece that the museum credits to have been done by the High Renaissance artist, Michelangelo Buonarroti, himself. This particular work is a type of sculpture in which the figures is shown in a three-dimensional form, or freestanding sculpture, that is standing at a height and width of 37 x 13 ¼ and is made purely out of Carrara marble. The statue

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    Michelangelo's Motivation Essay

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    The night Michelangelo Buonarroti was born, “Mercury and Venus were in the house of Jove,” says Vasari. This means that, according to a lucky star, Michelangelo could be expected to produce extraordinary works of both art and intellect. How true this turned out to be! Whether it was fate or coincidence, few haven’t heard of this world renowned and avant-garde talent. From painting to architecture and sculpture, it seems like there is nothing Michelangelo couldn’t master. Michelangelo is said to have

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    story. There have been different art eras in which countless artists rose to fame due to their extreme talent with a paint brush. Two of those artist were part of the Renaissance and Realism era. Throughout the Renaissance era(1300-1600), Michelangelo Buonarroti, became known to be one of the best painters in the world. He painted countless religious paintings, one of his masterpiece was the Sistine Chapel which was painted on the ceiling in the Vatican in Italy. During the realism era(18th century)

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    Another significantly important artist of the Italian renaissance who expresses the ideals of humanism is Michelangelo Buonarroti in his piece "The David". The giant 17-feet tall sculpture, or contrapposto of David initially started by another artist who was biblically intended to represent a young shepherd who defended the city from the Goliath. However, abandoned and later rescued by Michelangelo, the sculpture's message innovated to represent the strength and divinity of the man. "The Renaissance

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    and sculptures were present during the Renaissance, but there was one person that stood out the most. He all of the abilities that three men combined did not have and his name was Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni. Michelangelo has many painting that our still around today,

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    Michelangelo's David

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    The booming success of Renaissance Florence produced artworks which have become world renowned. Among them sits undoubtedly the works of Michelangelo, most notably ‘David’, ‘Pieta’, and the Sistine Chapel. A turn from religious glorification to a blend of classic secular subjects and Humanist appreciation through art, brought a new level to how and why artists create. A strive for Naturalism, or the desire to replicate the natural world through art, would be one of the rising factors in Renaissance

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    Michelangelo is known as one of the most influential Western artists of all time. Michelangelo Buonarroti was born on March 6, 1475, in a Florentine village called Caprese. Michelangelo had been attracted to art from a young age, but his father was a chairman of the Florentine Republic, so being an artist was considered an inferior occupation for his family. At the age of 13, Michelangelo’s father agreed to apprentice him to the fashionable Florentine painter's workshop. At this workshop, Michelangelo

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