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16 hours ago · Il carteggio di Michelangelo (1965-83) by Giovanni Poggi. “During Michelangelo’s lifetime, acquaintances treasured even matter-of-fact missives, and after his death the Buonarroti family did ...
1 day ago · The drawing, made when Michelangelo was in his mid to late 70s, is a cartoon. It was pricked for transfer to paint the mural of the Assumption of the Virgin in the Della Rovere Chapel in the Roman church of Santissima Trinità dei Monti. In that picture, Michelangelo is at the (viewer’s) far right, among the apostles.
5 days ago · The 16th-century Florentine artist Michelangelo was commissioned by Pope Julius II to paint the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling and the upper section of its walls. This was the artist’s focus from 1508 to 1512. He later finished the Last Judgment above the chapel altar from 1535 to 1541.
3 days ago · Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Unlike other Renaissance artists, Michelangelo possessed a unique combination of technical mastery and artistic vision ...
3 days ago · 01 Michelangelo is one of the greatest Italian Renaissance artists. 02 The Sistine Chapel ceiling (painted by Michelangelo from 1508 to 1512) is a cornerstone work of High Renaissance art. 03 Michelangelo had an exceptional influence on the development of Western art.
5 days ago · The interior of St. Peter’s is filled with many masterpieces of Renaissance and Baroque art, among the most famous of which are Michelangelo’s Pietà, the baldachin by Bernini over the main altar, the statue of St. Longinus in the crossing, the tomb of Urban VIII, and the bronze cathedra of St. Peter in the apse.
4 days ago · Michelangelo portrayed Jesus as a muscular, naked youth – something which had to be altered later by Daniele da Volterra (1509-66), an apprentice of Michelangelo. Shortly after returning to Rome, Michelangelo befriended the poet Vittoria Colonna (1492-1547), marchioness of Pescara, a member of the spirituali, an elite group of religious ...
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