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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet. His artistic versatility was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and fellow Florentine Leonardo da Vinci.
Michelangelo's output in every field during his long life was prodigious; when the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches and reminscences that survive is also taken into account, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century. Two of his best-known works, the Pietà and the David, were sculpted in his late twenties to early thirties. Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential fresco paintings in the history of Western art, on the ceiling and altar wall (The Last Judgement) of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Later in life he designed the dome of St Peter's Basilica in the same city and revolutionised classical architecture as he had done every other discipline he mastered, with invention of the giant order of pilasters.
Uniquely for a Renaissance artist, two biographies were published of Michelangelo during his own lifetime. One of them, by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that he was the pinnacle of all artistic achievement since the beginning of the Renaissance, a viewpoint that continued to have currency in art history for centuries. In his lifetime he was also often called Il Divino ("the divine one"), an appropriate sobriquet given his intense spirituality. One of the qualities most admired by his contemporaries was his terribilità, a sense of awe-inspiring grandeur, and it was the attempts of subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo's impassioned and highly personal style that resulted in the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance, Mannerism.
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. -- Michelangelo Buonarroti
rs23skruff (Tony) Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:50:08 -0000
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. -- Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michelangelo Buonarroti Madonna and Child http://flic.kr/p/7si687
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Michelangelo Buonarroti Madonna and Child http://flic.kr/p/7si687
Creation of Adam by Michelangelo Buonarroti â Adam & Eve http://bit.ly/7t2QwJ
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Creation of Adam by Michelangelo Buonarroti – Adam & Eve http://bit.ly/7t2QwJ
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The Digital Michelangelo Project - Home page of a group developing a way to scan Michelangelo's sculptures and represent them digitally in 3 dimensions.
Artcyclopedia: Michelangelo Buonarroti - Guide to 30 art museum sites and image archives where Michelangelo's paintings and sculptures can be viewed online.
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AskMichelangelo.com - Offers facts, biography, and images of works of the Renaissance artist.
Cappella Sistina - Pictorial overview of the Sistine Chapel. Detailed and complete.
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Life of an Artist: Michelangelo Buonarotti - Includes a biography as written by Giorgio Vasari and a gallery.
Michelangelo - Olga's Gallery - Comprehensive collection of the images of Michelangelo's works with biography and historical comments
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Michelangelo Buonarroti - Provides a comprehensive overview of Michelangelo's life. Three-part biography includes links to photographs of many of his works.
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Michelangelo Buonarroti, Renaissance Artist - Narrative on the life of Michelangelo and his Renaissance art, with details on his paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
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Michelangelo: - A well-written, humanizing biography of this genius, from the book Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture
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Michelangelo: The Flower of Florence - An article about the artist, his life and his work and his time spent in Florence, Italy.
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Poetry Archive: Michelangelo Buonarroti - An index of poems by the Italian artist.
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Smithsonian Magazine - It's a Michelangelo! - British scholar unearthed an unsigned drawing by the Italian master painter, sculptor and architect.
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Thais - 1200 Years of Italian Sculpture - Image archive with good photographs of many of Michelangelo's sculptures. Text is in Italian and English.
The Passions of Michelangelo - Artist's biography with the emphasis on his private life and images of the Sistine Chapel frescoes.
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The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella - John Addington Symonds translation. In plain text or as a zip file, from Project Gutenberg.
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Web Gallery of Art: Visit to the Sistine Chapel in Vatican - Virtual tour guides through the Sistine Chapel, presenting the ceiling frescoes painted by the artist, the Last Judgment, also by Michelangelo, and the frescoes on the side walls. Image galleries and history.
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