michelangelo

Michelangelo i Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up 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 Italian Leonardo da Vinci.

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Paul III roared at him, "I have waited 30 years for your services. Now I'm pope, can't I satisfy my desire?"
He said he painted one his masterpieces with his "beard turned up to heaven"
The following is a detail of perhaps his greatest painting:
Laszlo Toth took a hammer to his Pieta & Pietro Cannata took one to his David
His Florentine Pieta, intended for his own tomb, is a self-portrait of the sculptor holding the body of Christ
The Sistine Chapel is best known for its ceiling painted by this man
His only signed work is the "Pieta" in the Vatican
In 1504 Leonardo da Vinci was on the commission that decided the location for this man's "David"
He was in his 20's when he sculpted the "Pieta", now in St. Peter's Basilica
In the 1550s this artist & sculptor was architect for the Palazzo Farnese
This "Pieta" sculptor's statue of Bacchus is in the Bargello in Florence
He began his Sistine Chapel work with the Noah scenes over the entrance door
The artists who covered nudity painted by him in the Sistine Chapel were called "breeches makers"
"The Holy Family" is the only surviving panel painting by this "Pieta" artist
"Painting is my shame", said this guy, but the pope ordered him back to Rome to paint a ceiling anyway
Bertoldo di Giovanni studied under Donatello & taught this great Sistine artist
His Pieta was exhibited at the 1964 New York fair, the only time it left Italy since it was sculpted in 1499
"Moses" was one of the sculptures he did for the never-completed tomb of Julius II
Charlton Heston in "The Agony and the Ecstasy"
Charlton Heston felt "The Agony and the Ecstasy" as this ceiling painter
He finished sculpting "David" in 1504 but never completed his 12 apostles for Florence's cathedral
He snuck a self-portrait into his "The Last Judgment" fresco in the Sistine Chapel
In 1505 I was summoned by Pope Julius II to create his tomb
Upon completing the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in 1512, he wrote to his father, "The pope is well satisfied"
Even while painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he still signed his letters "Sculptor in Rome"
This master's works include the Florentine Pieta, the St. Peter's Pieta, & the Rondanini Pieta
In 1501 he was commissioned to make a statue of David for the cathedral of Florence
On the Medici tomb he designed, he had nudes representing dawn & dusk under the seated Lorenzo
In 1550 he completed his last fresco, "The Crucifixion of St. Peter"
Uncle Al's head got a little swelled around 1508 after doing a test for this artist
A pieta now in the cathedral of Florence was originally meant for this artist's tomb
His marble "David" would be hard to lose, but his smaller bronze "David" has been missing since the 18th century
In 1534 Pope Paul III named him painter, sculptor & architect of the Vatican Palace
Artemisia Gentileschi was paid 3 times the going rate to paint this ceiling painter's family home
In the 1520s Pope Clement VII commissioned him to build the Laurentian Library in Florence
Every March 6 your computer can be infected by this virus named for a Renaissance artist
You can see his unfinished "Rondanini Pieta" at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan
In 1546 Pope Paul III appointed this artist architect of St. Peter's Basilica
On Christmas Day, 1541 his Sistine Chapel painting of "The Last Judgment" was unveiled to the public
1965:Charlton Heston
Florence, Italy's Laurentian Library was designed between 1524 & 1534 by this master painter & sculptor
In 1534, after working on the tomb of the Medici, this artist moved from Florence to Rome
This man undertook the sculpture seen here for the tomb of Pope Julius II
In his final years, he worked on pietas that are less famous than the one he created for the Vatican
A Renaissance guy,Mr. Buonarroti
Pope Clement VII commissioned him to design the Medicean-Laurentian Library in 1523
Sculpted for Julius II's tomb, his "Dying Slave" & "Rebellious Slave" figures are now in the Louvre
Domenico Fontana was an engineer who helped carry out this 16th c. artist's plans for the dome of St. Peter's
The "Dying Slave", sculpted by this Italian master in the early 1500s, is in the Louvre
He designed the dome of St. Peter's Basilica, but it was Giacomo Della Porto who built it
It's his neck-bending depiction of the prophet Jeremiah seen here:
Buonarroti was the last name of this Italian artist who was famous for painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling
He's the Pisces born March 6, 1475 who said, "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free"
Around 1492 he created the marble "Battle Of The Centaurs"; no ceiling on his genius!
His statue of "Bacchus" led to a commission to create the famous "Pieta" now in St. Peter's Basilica
Carved in Rome, the "Pieta" is the only work signed by this sculptor
In 1488 this Renaissance artist was apprenticed to the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio in Florence
It would be a "Pieta" if you didn't recognize this artist's monogram, seen here
As a teen in the 1480s, this sculptor of "David" studied art at a school in the Medici Gardens
Pietro Torrigiano is remembered not so much for his art as for breaking this fellow Florentine sculptor's nose
At age 75 he began to sculpt his Florentine Pieta, in which he portrayed himself in the guise of Nicodemus
When not painting frescoes, he did odd jobs like making models of saltcellars for the Duke of Urbino

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