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    Michelangelo Buonarroti is one of the most well-known artists in history with many famous paintings that show his talent. He was born on March 6‚ 1475 in Caprese‚ Tuscany between four and five in the morning. He was the second of five boys to Ludovico di Buonarotto Simoni and Francesca Neri. His mother was too ill and frail to take care of him so he was placed with someone called a “wet mother”. This woman nursed Michelangelo and took care of him in ways that his own mother was unable to do. At

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    Renaissance art. This artwork was created in 1508 and completed in 1512‚ it was made on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel where years later it remains. The Creation of Adam is one of the most famous and iconic frescos in the Sistine Chapel. It all began when Michelangelo was invited back to Rome and commissioned by Pope Julius II to create several frescos on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo who was known for his sculptures was unware that this creation would become one of his most celebrated

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    Angels & Demons As a child we paint the world in colors and rainbow though the reality varies quiet afar from that. In our youth we know of only basic traits of happy and sad‚ then we grow and experience the world and evolve to have greed‚ maliciousness‚ and jealousy‚ that is what this world makes us. And no matter how hard we try to conceal the unlikable‚ a peek of it will always show it self through your personality.As someone who keep his evil covered till death there is a clear case made by

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    demonstrate an understanding of how works of art reflect the culture‚ politics‚ religion‚ and artistic movements of the times in which the artists created them. Links Virtual Diego Rivera Web Museum http://redirect.platoweb.com/337736 Frescoes in the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo http://redirect.platoweb.com/337737 creating and delivering a presentation http://redirect.platoweb.com/337484 Introduction You will review two artists from different historical periods. Using your understanding of the works

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    painting but the pope “forced” him to and he stopped his true passion of sculpting to do the Sistine Chapel. This quote ends the book and sums up what Michelangelo did and what kind of person he was. Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling tells the amazing story of how the Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Michelangelo is a sculptor not an artist and did not really want to paint the Sistine Chapel. He had no prior knowledge of fresco and was not trained at all in painting. He was a very

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    is remembered today as the man who had sculpted the "David" and the "Pieta"‚ which are two of the most stunning sculptures to come out of the Renaissance period. Although sculpting was the love of his life‚ his paintings of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel‚ and "The Last Judgement" are considered by many his best masterpieces. Michelangelo ’s artistic career can be divided into two periods. In the early period he focused on realism. During this early period Michelangelo ’s works included the Pieta

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    Jessica Stephens Professor Carol Eckert Art History 210 13 November 2012 An Assortment of Michelangelo’s oeuvres Some know of him‚ some praise him‚ some confuse him with another. A Renaissance man and an appreciator of the Classical and Hellenistic Greek styles‚ Michelangelo Buonarroti is the man of his century. Unlike many other artists of his similar day and time‚ Michelangelo was born into a reasonable state in the community of Caprese in Italy. His father‚ Lodovico di Lionardo Buonarroti

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    unclear; he has a mature face‚ an old hand‚ and a torso of a young man. Sometimes the awkwardness of the different body parts might have resulted because of Michelangelo assigning different locations or spots for his assistants to help him with. The Sistine Chapel Ceiling includes the transplantation of body parts of men also; it was painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512. It shows up throughout the series of paintings on the ceiling representing the scenes from the first book of the bible. The complex

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    1. In what ways was Leonardo da Vinci experimental with his artwork? He was experimental in that he used many different styles and techniques in his works. The last supper he established a balance between intense human emotion and symbolic importance of Jesus. It represented his soon to be death and the institution of the rituals of the Mass. He was experiemtnal in the fact that he had the skill of great proportions through his use of geometry.. Leonardo’s creation of the Vitruvian man is a great

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    this work with works of Perugino‚ especially Christ giving the Keys to St Peter (1481-1482) and also The Marriage of the Virgin (1500-1504). Raphael was commissioned to produce the work by the Albizzini family of Città di Castello (scala 8) for the chapel of St Joseph in the Church of San Francesco. In comparison to the two works of Perugino the similarities are easily recognised. However although we can date Perugino’s earlier work between 1481and1482‚ his Marriage of the Virgin can only be dated

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