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    Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo are some of the most famous artists from their time to now. The high renaissance was a time period of expression for all the artists but Michelangelo was one of the most famous. Michelangelo, was born in 1475 and began his career at the age of 17 shortly after his mentor died. Michelangelo was mainly considered a sculptor but he also was a poet, architect and painter. One of his better known works is "David" which is a 17 foot sculpture of the hero who killed Goliath

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    Michelangelo Michelangelo was the first Western artist that was recognized while he was alive ((Michelangelo Buonarroti Biography). He was one of the most talented and inspirational artist in modern history (Michelangelo, his paintings, and sculptures). His focuses were on paintings, sculptures, architecture, and drawings (Michelangelo style and technique). He used the mediums of oil, wood, stone, and other things related to that (Michelangelo style and technique). Figure and Fantasy are the subjects

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    masterpieces in history. The creators of these artworks during these decades of the Renaissance include Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, and Raphael Sanzio. Influenced and sometimes driven competitively by each other, these artists share differences and similarities in their life, art style and techniques, and interests. The most evident similarity of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael is that they created High Renaissance art, a style that could be said to have been created and perfected

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    Michelangelo is a renowned sculptor, painter and architect known for his artwork in the Italian renaissance. He is celebrated mostly for his sculptures including Pieta, and David; and for his Sistine Chapel Frescoes, Genesis, and The Last Judgment. (Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564).) However these are only a few of his many artworks, most of which have been destroyed, but still left a great impact on the Renaissance, and Western civilization. (La Renaissance Italy) Michelangelo Buonarroti

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    other hand, Bernini’s statue of David was all about movement in the moment. The similarities between Michelangelo and Bernini is that both depicts the same historical character. Both artists used the same material marble to create the statue David. In addition, even though both artist made the art in two separate times, their goal was to show the strength and confidence of a man.

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    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

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    From canvas to stone in addition to marble, Michelangelo has been impacting art During and even after his lifetime. From the time he carved up a block of marble that was sitting on someone's lawn for 130 years, then made David out of that block of marble to when he used himself as a model for sculptors and painting, this is how Michelangelo influenced art. In the classical period, Sculptures like to show figures in action doing things such as fighting in a war and performing Olympic sports like

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    A comparison of the style between the famous Italian Renaissance Sculptors Michelangelo, Bandinelli, and Giambologna The Italian Renaissance was an explosion of the arts in Italy, not only in painting and architecture, but in sculpture as well. Over the span of about eighty years, sculpture became transcendent during this time. Sculpture style has evolved over the course of many years from something that was not just considered philosophical or just simply aesthetic, but to something that involves

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    Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti were, and still are considered to be two of the greatest minds, even geniuses of the Renaissance. But which one is more of a genius than the other? Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 15th, 1452, son to a notary called Ser Piero. Ser Pier has sex with a woman called Catarina, which resulted in her pregnancy. For a believed reason that Catarina was the Daughter of a farmer, they never got married. Ser Pier later married another woman, when he was 25, which

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    these men was Michelangelo Buenarroti. Michelangelo was a world-wide known painter, sculptor, architect, and poet, who was of great Importance and had a great impact on our modern day culture. 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. As Michelangelo grew up, his

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