Michelangelo Buonarroti Rang 4 Clonlara Michelangelo Buonarroti Renaissance

Michelangelo Buonarroti Rang 4 Clonlara

Michelangelo Buonarroti Renaissance Artist

Early Life of Michelangelo o Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475 in Caprese, Italy o He came from a respectful family and was the 2 nd born of three brothers o Michelangelo’s family moved to Settignano, a village outside of Florence, after his mother passed away when he was 6 years old

Early Education o At age 12 he was enrolled as an apprentice to prominent Florentine painter, Domenico Ghirlandaia, but soon began to study sculpture instead o He attracted the attention of Lorenzo de Medici, who then was the leading art patron of Florence o From 1490 -1492 Michelangelo lived with the Medici Family where he studied with Bertoldo di Giovanni, a sculptor employed by the Medici family

Relief Sculpture o At age 16, Michelangelo’s completed his first relief sculpture called The Battle of Centaurs o He then created The Madonna of the Stairs which began to show movement and force

The Pieta o Michelangelo traveled to Rome where he remained from 1496 -1501 o At age 23 he completed The Pieta, a marble statue that shows the Virgin Mary with the dead Jesus lying across her lap o This statue is larger than life size and is currently being shown in St. Peter’s Church in Rome

David o After returning to Florence, Michelangelo produced the magnificent David o He chose to represent David as an athletic, manly character, very concentrated and ready to fight o Florence was going through a difficult period and he used the David as a model of heroic courage

Sistine Chapel o From 1508 until 1512, Michelangelo worked on his most famous project, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican o On the ceiling, he illustrated: n The Story of Genesis with scenes of God creating the world n The story of Adam and Eve n The story of Noah and the great flood o He later painted The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel

The Sistine Chapel

MICHELANGELO

Pieta 1499

The Dying Slave 1513

The Captive Atlas

Moses “Moses is also an image of Michelangelo’s Own aspirations, a figure… trembling With indignation, having mastered the explosion of his wrath. ” - de Tolnay 1513 -15

Tomb of Pope Julius II

David Michelangelo, 1501

Donatello’s David

Sistine Ceiling

Michelangelo’s Views on Painting o “The more painting resembles sculpture, the better I like it, the more sculpture resembles painting, the worse I like it”. -1547 o On Portraiture: …”flattery of idle curiosity and of the imperfect illusions of the senses”. o On the Sistine Ceiling: …”this is not my profession. I am wasting my time, and all for nothing. May God help me!”

Sistine Ceiling Michelangelo 1508 -12

Restoration 1977 - 89

Creation of Adam Michelangelo, from Sistine Ceiling

Creation of Eve Expulsion from Paradise

Cumaean Sibyl “…tragic torches of thought who burn and are consumed in the darkness of the Pagan And Jewish worlds; the whole of human wisdom waiting for the savior’s coming”. - R. Rolland

Libyan Sibyl

Last Judgment Michelangelo 1541

Last Judgment, det.

Last Judgment, det.

Last Judgment, St. Bartholomew

Rondanini Pieta 1555 - 64

Final Days o Towards the end of his life, Michelangelo became more involved in architecture and poetry o From 1540 -1550 he redesigned St. Peter’s Church in Rome, completing only the dome and four columns o Michelangelo died of old age on February 18 th, 1564

o The End