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    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

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    qualities, and then to apply this knowledge specifically to the reputation of Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet. The essay first describes the qualities of the Renaissance values in question, then focuses on the specific effects they had on Michelangelo.

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    Michelangelo’s paintings. He had accessed the Sistine Chapel still in its making without the consent on Michelangelo and later scraped his frescos of the wall to paint and repainted it, imitating the more dynamic style of

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    Michelangelo was known as the Father and Master of All the Arts. He was born on March 6, 1475 in Caprese, Italy. His family was in the banking business. Because the lack of interest in the family business, Michelangelo’s father took him to study painting at the Florentine painter’s workshop. This is where he learned the fresco technique. After a year, Michelangelo moved into the palace where Lorenzo the Magnificent and the Medici family lived. He spent his time studying sculptures in the Medici gardens

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    One can see from the many depictions through paintings, sculptures, and architecture that the biblical young David served as an heroic influence and inspiration for many artists. The creation of these masterpieces, although constructed in different moments in time, individually display and bring out great emotional responses from its viewers. When speaking on the statue of David, Michelangelo’s sculpture is world famous and most highly noted. However there is more than one David; one in which was

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    period was based on humanism and Neoplatonism style. Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael were considered the Master Artists of the High Renaissance period and there individual art styles included: monumentality, balance, Sfumato, 3-D pyramid, using a primary color palette in one point perspective. ‘The Creation of Adam’ by Michelangelo between1508-1512 is located on the ceiling of The Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, Rome. Michelangelo was a Neoplatonic thinker who believed that the image, figure or

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    Lisa Tsinis March 1, 2017 Renaissance Art in Europe Michelangelo’s Creation of Eve To the average person, Michelangelo 's Sistine Ceiling is renowned for its grandeur, its dense scenes, but especially its iconic Creation of Adam. After all, Vasari described Michelangelo’s Adam as a “figure whose beauty, pose, and contours are of such a quality that he seems newly created by his Supreme and First Creator rather than by the brush and design of a mere mortal” (Varghese 191-192). And while this is

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    the topics which could be hidden before and appeal to the relatively new type of human being. Renaissance and Baroque were the historical periods which correlated with each other and were both contrasting and cooperative in some of the aspects. Michelangelo Buonarroti was an artist whose influence on further artistic development is undeniable as he showed how Renaissance changed human mind, its advantages, and drawbacks. Contrastingly, Andrea Pozzo was depicted how Renaissance led to the creation

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    These monuments demonstrate the changes from the Early Renaissance to the High Renaissance. Donatello’s sculpture of David was created in the round and was the first since antiquity to be casting using the lost wax method. Michelangelo’s sculpture of David was created in the round, as well, but his sculpture was carved out of marble. Both Donatello’s and Michelangelo’s sculptures were images of David from the Old Testament. Donatello’s David appears closed, with his right arm holding the sword

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    Michelangelo Buonarotti Simone Michelangelo was born in Caprese, region of Florence – Italy on March 6, 1475, was born to a family that had for several generations belonged to minor nobility in Florence but had, by the time the artist was born, lost its patrimony and status. His father was an official with a well-off position in the city and his mother died when he was 6 years old. Son of the Florentine arts, this magnificent sculptor, painter and architect, of the Italian Renaissance manifested

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