Michangelo

Michangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

      Michelangelo Buonarroti (6 March 1475- 18 February 1564) was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor and poet. Artists Michelangelo and rival artist Leonardo da Vinci are often considered contenders of the title of the archetypal Renaissance man.   As a youth, Michelangelo was greatly influenced by prominent figures in the low renaissance such as Masaccio, Giotto, Signorelli, and Donatello Two of Michelangelo’s best know works are the Pietà and David. He also created two of the most influential works in Western art history: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the wall at the Sistine Chapel. In his lifetime, he was often known as the Il Divino (The Divine One). One of the most important of Michelangelo’s qualities was his terribilità (“a sense of aw inspiring grandeur”) and the attempts of other artists to imitate Michelangelo’s impassioned and highly personal style that led to the movement of Mannerism. One unusual fact about Michelangelo is that he used to dissect corpses.
      Michelangelo was associated with the art movement of the Italian High Renaissance.The Italian High Renaissance is the defining movement in art history. No other artistic movement has contributed as more than the renaissance to development of art as a whole.Before this Renaissance, art was viewed merely as any other skilled craftsmen and were given the same respect as carpenters and goldsmiths. Before the period of the Renaissance subjects in art were of religious nature, and most artists made their living drawing biblical scenes and portraits of saints. Therefore, paintings often showed little correct anatomical form, atmospheric condition, or geometric shape. During the 1400’s though, the Renaissance sparked a new interest in Greek and Roman culture leading to increased knowledge about the human form with innovations in mathematics and science. Beauty was now more connected to art and the...