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Michelangelo
(1475-1564)
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Michelangelo
l Early
Life in
Florence
l First
Roman
Sojourn
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First
Return to
Florence
The
Sistine Chapel
Ceiling
l The
Tomb of Julius
II
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The
Laurentian
Library
l The
Medici
Tombs
The
Last Judgment
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The
Campidoglio
l
Dome
of St. Peter's
Basilica
Michelangelo's
Achievements
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Michelangelo's
Achievements
During
his long lifetime, Michelangelo
was an intimate of princes and
popes, from Lorenzo de' Medici to
Leo X, Clement VIII, and Pius
III, as well as cardinals,
painters, and poets. Neither easy
to get along with nor easy to
understand, he expressed his view
of himself and the world even
more directly in his poetry than
in the other arts. Much of his
verse deals with art and the
hardships he underwent, or with
Neoplatonic philosophy and
personal
relationships.
The
great Renaissance poet Ludovico
Ariosto wrote succinctly of this
famous artist: “Michael more
than mortal, divine angel.”
Indeed, Michelangelo was widely
awarded the
epithet“divine” because
of his extraordinary
accomplishments.
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Two
generations of Italian painters and
sculptors were impressed by his treatment
of the human figure: Raphael, Annabale
Carracci, Pontormo, Rosso Fiorentino,
Sebastiano del Piombo, and Titian. His
dome for St. Peter's became the symbol of
authority, as well as the model, for domes
all over the Western world; the majority
of state capitol buildings in the U.S., as
well as the Capitol in Washington, D.C.,
are derived from it.
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