Kunstenaar Michealangelo

"Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was a Florentine painter, sculptor, poet and architect and perhaps the greatest figure of the Italian Renaissance. His father claimed noble lineage and Michelangelo was apprenticed to the painter Ghirlandaio despite family opposition to a career that was considered to be not quite appropriate for a member of the gentry. He moved away from Florence after the death in 1492 of the great Florentine patron, Lorenzo de Medici, and established his name over the next ten years with the creation of three great sculptures, Bacchus, Pieta and David. Michelangelo returned to Florence in 1501, where he was commissioned by the City to paint a vast mural for the new Council Chamber and where he worked for a time with Leonardo da Vinci, who was also painting a mural in the same room. However, Michelangelo had to leave this work unfinished when he was summoned to Rome to create a tomb for Pope Julius II. Like much of Michelangelo’s work, the tomb project was also never successfully completed. However, the Pope also commissioned Michelangelo to create perhaps his most famous work, the frescos on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo was reluctant to take the commission, viewing himself primarily as a sculptor, but completed the task unaided in only four years and, in the process, secured his position as the greatest recognised artist of his day. He continued after the death of Julius II to work for the Papacy and Julius’s successor, Leo X who was also a member of the Medici family and to the glorification of which Michelangelo dedicated much of the rest of his career. Other notable projects included the Medici Chapel in Florence, which was never completed the massive painting of The Last Judgement across a whole wall of the Sistine Chapel and Michelangelo’s responsibility as architect for the completion of St Peter’s in Rome."

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