MICHELANGELO DI LUDOVICO BUONARROTI SIMONI March 6, February 18, 1564

MICHELANGELO ITALIAN RENAISSANCE PAINTER, SCULPTOR, ACRCHITECT, AND POET WAS RIVALS WITH MANY ARTISTS, INCLUDING LEONARDO DA VINCI STUDIED WITH DOMENICO GHIRLANDAIO,MEDICI FAMILY FIRST WESTERN ARTIST WHOSE BIOGRAPHY WAS PUBLISHED WHILE HE WAS ALIVE

EARLY WORKS MADONNA OF THE STAIRS 1491 THE BATTLE OF THE CENTAURS 1492

DAVID THE STATUE WAS PLACED IN PUBLIC VIEW OUTSIDE THE PALAZZO DELLA SIGNORIA THE STATUE REPESENTED CIVIC LIBERTY BY 1910 THE ART PIECE WAS REPLACED WITH A REPLICA THE GALLERIA DELL’ ACCADEMIA IN FLORENCE

THE PIETA ONLY ART PIECE THAT HAS MICHELANGELO’S SIGNATURE THE STATUE IS ST. PETER’S BASILICA IN ROME THE ART PIECE WAS DAMAGED BY LASZLO TOTH ON MAY 21, 1972

THE PIETA

SISTINE CHAPEL AS A REGUEST FROM POPE JULIUS 11, MICHELANGELO PAINTED THE CEILING 131 FT LONG BY 13 METERS WIDE HAS MORE THAN 300 FIGURES THE PAINTING TOOK FOUR YEARS TO COMPLETE MICHELANGELO WROTE A POEM TO EXPRES THE PHYSICAL STRAIN THAT THE PAINTING HAD CAUSE HIM

THE LAST JUDGEMENT

ARCHITECTURAL WORKS Pioneered the mannerist the Laurentian library Drew the central plan for Saint Peter’s basilica – completed after his death with modification

Sketch: St. Peter’s Dome

Sketch: Plan for the drum of the cupola of St. Peter’s MICHELANGELO REFUSED ANY FORM OF PAYMENT, HE FINISHED THE WORK IN THE NAME OF THE CHURCH AND HIS SOUL

Sketch: Central portal of the Porta Pia

FLORENTINE PIETA WAS CREATED BETWEEN 1547 AND1553 THE ART PIECE WAS MADE TO DECORATE THE TOMB OF MICHELANGELO THE FEMALE FIGURE WAS ADDED BY TIBERIO CALCAGNI THE SCULTURE IS LOCATED IN THE MUSEO DELL’OPERA DEL DUOMO IN FLORENCE

UNFINISHED WORKS

MICHELANGELO AT AGE 89 AFTER 1545 MICHELANGELO FOCUSED ON ARCHITECTURE AND POETRY THE LAST SCULPUTRES CREATED WAS TWO PIETAS THE PALESTRINA AND THE RONDANINI IN FEBRUARY 18,1564 MICHELANGELO DIED IN ROME AND WAS BURIED IN FLORENCE MICHELANGELO BECOME KNOWN AS “THE DIVINE”

WORKS CITED George Bull. MICHELANGELO: A Biography St. Martin’s Press, New York. King, Ross. Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling Walker Publishing Company. Pullella, Philip. “Vatican marks anniversary of 1972 attack on Michelangelo’s Pieta.” May 21, Web. Rekant Stuart B., Friedman Adam, and Markham Monte. Biography Michelangelo Artist and Man. Documentary. n.d. Wang June Aileen. The Sixteenth Century Journal. Vol. 35, No. 2, 2014.