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  1. Oct 18, 2010 · Michelangelo was a sculptor, painter and architect widely considered to be one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance. His works include the Sistine Chapel.

  2. Nov 3, 2021 · An Introduction to Art by Michelangelo. Michelangelo was one of the first real personalities in art history. He was a multidisciplinary prodigy largely regarded as one of the best painters of the Italian Renaissance era, despite a propensity for being temperamental, finicky, and demanding.

  3. Apr 2, 2024 · The Last Judgment, fresco by Michelangelo completed 1536–41. Pope Clement VII commissioned Michelangelo to paint a fresco in the Sistine Chapel in 1534. The Last Judgment is generally regarded as one of Michelangelos greatest masterpieces.

  4. Hero of the High Renaissance. He was the only artist of whom it was claimed in his lifetime that he surpassed Antiquity. He was born in Caprese in the 1470s and trained first as a painter with Ghirlandaio, and then as a sculptor under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici.

  5. Apr 9, 2009 · April 9, 2009. The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo. Jim Zuckerman / Corbis. In the spring of 1509, just two years after a mapmaker coined the word “America” in honor of the explorer Amerigo...

  6. Michelangelo's most seminal pieces: the massive painting of the biblical narratives on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, the 17-foot-tall and anatomically flawless David, and the heartbreakingly genuine Pietà, are considered some of the greatest achievements in human history. Tourists flock to Rome and Florence to stand before them. Accomplishments.

  7. The Sistine Chapel ceiling ( Italian: Soffitto della Cappella Sistina ), painted in fresco by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is a cornerstone work of High Renaissance art . The Sistine Chapel is the large papal chapel built within the Vatican between 1477 and 1480 by Pope Sixtus IV, for whom the chapel is named.

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