Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in Caprese and raised in Florence, he trained with the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio and studied sculpture in the circle of Lorenzo de' Medici. At about twenty-four he completed the Pietà for St. Peter's in Rome, a marble image of Mary holding her Son that established his reputation, and soon after carved the David (1501–1504) for Florence. Though he considered himself chiefly a sculptor, he accepted Pope Julius II's commission to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508–1512), with its scenes from Genesis, including the Creation of Adam; decades later he painted The Last Judgment on the chapel's altar wall. In old age he served as chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica, designing its dome. A devout man who worked into his late eighties, he left art that unites strength, beauty and devotion.
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Masters of the Renaissance
Donatello revived the spirit of classical sculpture in early fifteenth-century Florence, preparing the way for the High Renaissance. Leonardo painted The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa, Michelangelo carved David and painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling, and Raphael created The School of Athens in the Vatican. North of the Alps, Albrecht Dürer absorbed Italian ideas on journeys to Venice and exchanged works with Raphael, carrying the Renaissance to Germany.
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