The Life of Michelangelo Michelangelo Buonarroti was a brilliant Italian artist from the 15th century. Author Ascanio Condivi wrote an interesting biography called The Life of Michelangelo‚ which talks about Michelangelo’s journey through life. Michelangelo came from a noble family‚ the counts of Canossa‚ who are from a part of Reggio‚ Italy. Michelangelo’s father realized at a young age that his son was brilliant. He wanted his son to study in the field of letter so he sent Michelangelo to an upscale
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Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi aka Sandro Botticelli March 1‚ 1445 - May 17‚ 1510 Alessandro Filipepi‚ better known as Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance or Quattrocento. Sandro was born at Florence in 1445 in a house in the Via Nueva‚ Borg’ Ognissanti. This was the home of his father‚ Mariano di Vanni dei Filipepi‚ a struggling tanner. Sandro‚ the youngest child‚ derived the name Botticelli by which he was
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unsuccessful. Afterwards‚ Sixtus had turned his attention to Italian politics‚ and used nepotism to ___________. In 1478‚ the Pope had took part in the “Pazzi Conspiracy‚” planned by his nephew‚ Cardinal Rafael Riario to assassinate Lorenzo de Medici‚ and his brother‚ Giuliano de’ Medici and replace them with the pope’s other nephew‚ Girolamo Riario. Although Sixtus’ crusade against the Turks and involvement in the “Pazzi Conspiracy” were blots in his papacy‚ Sixtus had made several contributions to Rome‚ such
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Pope Clement VII Giulio de’ Medici was born in the exquisite city of Florence‚ Italy on May 26‚ 1478. He was the son of Fioretta Gorini‚ and the prevailing Giuliano de’ Medici whom was in fact one of the pronounced leaders of Florence during the late 1400’s. Giuliano de’ Medici was brother of Lorenzo the Magnificent and was recognized as the “co-ruler” of Florence in his time. After the tragic assassination of his father and death of his mother‚ Giulio de’ Medici was then taken in and educated
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interpret Botticelli’s masterpiece‚ painted in or around 1482 for Lorenzo de Medici‚ better known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-1492)‚ the great ruler of Florence and patron of the arts. The scholars‚ Professor Guidoni says‚ missed the real point of the masterpiece. It was a codified representation of Lorenzo’s ambitious‚ and abortive‚ plan for unifying Italy through a network of alliances between the warring city states. Lorenzo had thus anticipated Garibaldi’s struggle to unite Italy by almost
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age of 13 Michelangelo’s father Ludovico Buonarroti placed Michelangelo in the workshop of the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio through connections with the ruling Medici family. About two years later Michelangelo studied at the sculpture school in the Medici gardens. Shortly thereafter he was invited into the household of the magnificent‚ Lorenzo
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on enjoying life and the world around man‚ and talented individuals sought self-gratification through art and philosophy (Vary). In Italy‚ the Renaissance presented through literary and art themes a new humanistic conception of man. The rise of the Medici family also held a great role in the sponsorship of the arts. Humanism was considered to be the most significant intellectual movement of the Renaissance. As its name implies‚ humanism was a philosophy that was characterized by its blending of the
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Rome in 1498‚ the cardinal Jean Bilhères de Lagraulas‚ a representative of the French King Charles VIII to the pope‚ commissioned "Pieta‚" a sculpture of Mary holding the dead Jesus across her lap[https://www.biography.com/]. Despite being in the employ of the Medici Pope Clement VII‚ Michelangelo backed the republican cause and was appointed director of the city’s fortifications. In 1527‚ the citizens of Michelangelo’s native Florence expelled the ruling Medici family and installed a republican government
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of the Medici family‚ one of the most powerful families in Florence‚ Italy. He left Florence in 1480 to help decorate the Sistine Chapel in Rome with some of his art which only the most famous painters of that time were invited to do. In 1482‚ Botticelli returned to Florence and shortly after painted the Birth of Venus (Angelis‚ 4). PART III - ANALYSIS OF THE SITE AND ART OBJECT A. Even though I would love to visit and view the Birth of Venus in
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Michelangelo as an artist‚ which was unusual at the time. Demonstrating obvious talent‚ he was taken under the wing of Lorenzo de’ Medici‚ the ruler of the Florentine republic and a great patron of the arts. For two years beginning in 1490‚ he lived in the Medici palace and attended the Humanist academy‚ where he was a student of the sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni and studied the Medici art collection‚ which included ancient Roman statuary. At the academy‚ both Michelangelo’s outlook and his art was influenced
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