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  2. Apr 18, 2018 · The Divine Michelangelo. In this BBC documentary Marcello Giorgi recreates a lost sculpture created by Michelangelo. Using the techniques of Michelangelo's era and getting into...

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  3. Feb 29, 2004 · The Divine Michelangelo: Directed by Tim Dunn, Stuart Elliott. With Susannah York, Stephen Noonan, Roy Holder, Remo Masini. In the year that the David celebrates its 500th anniversary, BBC ONE brings to life the story of one of the most gifted, and tempestuous, artists in history.

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  4. BBC One - The Divine Michelangelo. The Divine Michelangelo. Home. Docu-drama tracing the life of artist Michelangelo. At the age of 26 Michelangelo produces a statue of David the...

  5. smarthistory.org › italy-16th-century › michelangeloSmarthistory – Michelangelo

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    Although he became an artistic superstar, Michelangelo’s start was different from most artists of his time. His initial success can be credited to his family’s connections to the powerful, noble Florentine family, the Medici. In the early 1490s, he learned carving under the tutelage of a student of Donatello, Bertoldo di Giovanni, at the Medici scu...

    Soon after, Michelangelo received an important commission in Florence. A figure of David was desired for up high on an outside buttress of the Duomo. He was tasked to re-use a nearly twenty-foot tall piece of marble nicknamed “The White Giant” that another artist had attempted but failed to carve forty years prior. Michelangelo stepped up to the ch...

    Michelangelo was initially called to Rome in 1505 to carve the tomb of Julius II intended for the center of New St. Peter’s Basilica, soon to be under construction. If fully realized, the monument would have contained over forty life-size figures, impossible for Michelangelo to ever have finished. The memorial was finally erected, in a reduced form...

    Michelangelo’s second fresco in the Sistine Chapel in Rome, the Last Judgment, was commissioned by Pope Paul III and was painted between 1535 and 1541. It also functioned as a study tool for artists. Giorgio Vasari, the sixteenth-century artist and biographer, claimed that artists no longer needed to study live models from nature since every concei...

  6. Nov 13, 2017 · Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. All Past Exhibitions. At The Met Fifth Avenue. November 13, 2017–February 12, 2018. Print. Exhibition Overview. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564), a towering genius in the history of Western art, is the subject of this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition.

  7. To his contemporary Giorgio Vasari, Michelangelo was “the divine draftsman and designer” whose work embodied the unity of the arts. Beautifully illustrated with more than 350 drawings, paintings, sculptures, and architectural views, this book establishes the centrality of disegno to Michelangelos work.

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