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Michelangelo, the Greatest Artist of His Time
Michelangelo was a great artist and sculptor who inspired many artists in the past and for years to come. He was born on March 6, 1475 in Caprese Italy. He showed his love of art at an early age. One of his first major art projects was completing the unfinished statue of David. It is a colossal statue portraying David as a symbol of Florentine freedom. The statue would be placed in the Piazza della Signoria, in front of the Palazzo Vecchio upon completion. Taking Michelangelo one year to complete, he finished his most famous work, the Statue of David in 1504. This masterwork, created out of a marble block from quarries, definitively established his prominence as a sculptor of extraordinary skill and imagination. In 1505, Michelangelo was invited back to Rome by the newly elected Pope Julius II. He was commissioned to build the Pope's tomb. Michelangelo worked on the tomb for 40 years. The tomb, of which the central feature is Michelangelo's statue of Moses, was never finished to Michelangelo's satisfaction. It is located in the Church of S. Pietro in Vincoli in Rome. During the same period, Michelangelo took the commission to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which took approximately four years to complete. Michelangelo used bright colours, easily visible from the floor. On the lowest part of the ceiling he painted the ancestors of Christ. Above this he alternated male and female prophets, with Jonah over the altar. On the highest section, Michelangelo painted nine stories from the Book of Genesis. He was originally commissioned to paint only 12 figures, the Apostles. He turned down the commission because he saw himself as a sculptor, not a painter. The Pope offered to allow Michelangelo to paint biblical scenes of his own choice as a compromise. After the work was finished, there were more than 300. His figures showed the creation, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and the Great Flood. On February 18, 1564, Michelangelo perished because of a terrible fever. He contributed to the revolution of the Renaissance era, especially in the art section. He brought out the beauty in art by showing the elegance of the human body like in the Statue of David. He also put more nature into the art to make it more realistic. Making paintings and sculptors more realistic was one huge contribution he made to the renaissance art.
This is a portrait of Michelangelo
The Statue of David, Michelangelo's most famous sculptor ever. This sculptor shows the beauty of the human body.
This is a picture of the ceiling at the Sistine Chapel. You can see a few ofthe different biblical scenes that Michelangelo painted
