Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564)

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was a person.

• Context:
  • He created Works by Michelangelo, such as: Michelangelo's Pietà, and Michelangelo's David.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Leonardo da Vinci.
• See: Republic of Florence, Papal States, High Renaissance, Painter.

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References

2020

• (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo Retrieved:2020-5-15.
  • Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known best as simply Michelangelo , was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. His artistic versatility 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, the fellow Florentine, Leonardo da Vinci. At the age of 74, he succeeded Antonio da Sangallo the Younger as the architect of St. Peter's Basilica. He transformed the plan so that the western end was finished to his design, as was the dome, with some modification, after his death. Michelangelo was the first Western artist whose biography was published while he was alive. In fact, two biographies were published during his lifetime. One of them, by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that Michelangelo's work transcended that of any artist living or dead, and was "supreme in not one art alone but in all three". In his lifetime, Michelangelo was often called Il Divino ("the divine one"). His contemporaries often admired his terribilità—his ability to instil a sense of awe. Attempts by subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo's impassioned, highly personal style resulted in Mannerism, the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance.

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