Let me add
this great artist of the Italian Renaissance, right after Leonardo Da Vinci. In 1488 the young Michelangelo began attending
the workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio, but the activity did not correspond to
his character, so much so that he was often working in solitude. And it’s in
this period that the artist Michelangelo is formed and mature their own
artistic creativity through the study of fifteenth-century Florentine culture.
In Florence he lived and worked for the Medici family.
In this
youthful period he realizes the Battle of the Centaurs and the Madonna della
Scala (1490-92, Casa Buonarroti, Florence).
In 1495
when Florence Savonarola fighting art, Michelangelo moved to Rome where he
sculpted the famous Vatican Pietà (Pietas).
She then
returned to Florence where he produced a series of works that today still are masterpieces.
The Doni Tondo (Uffizi Gallery, Florence), the Pitti Tondo (Museo del Bargello,
Florence) and in 1501 he created his most famous sculpture David (Accademia
Museum, Florence). The work was placed at the entrance of the Palazzo Vecchio,
then moved inside the Museum (currently outside the Palazzo Vecchio is a copy).
Spostatosi
again in Rome to the dependence of Pope Julius II, where he worked for about
forty years. Begins with the design of his tomb, Michelangelo but neglected by
the pope is not in tune with the Pope. Then ironed out their differences,
Julius II in 1508 commissioned him to fresco the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
(I
saw it in person when a teenager). An immense task that requires four years of intense work, where we
find the Creation of Adam and represents the full expression of the artistic
ideals of the Renaissance.
On the
death of Pope Julius II (in 1513) Michelangelo works to his grave and realizes
the Moses and the two Slaves (Louvre Museum, Paris). Michelangelo returned to Florence and back to work for the Medici
made the Basilica of San Lorenzo with the project for the decoration of the
facade and the building of the New Sacristy (1520-34).
In San
Lorenzo also creates the project for the Laurentian Library (which dots will be
realized only after the middle of 1500 together with Ammannati).
After 1530
he resumed work at the tomb of Julius II and sculpts the four unfinished
Prisoners but even these do not go to adorn the tomb of the great pontiff (= Pope).
After the
death of his father Lodovico, in 1534 Michelangelo moved permanently to Rome
and worked for Pope Clement VII. In this stage of life he frescoed the altar of
the Sistine Chapel with the Last Judgment (1536-41).
Michelangelo
also works on architecture and after 1550 he completed the construction of the
Laurentian Library in Florence (stunningly beautiful) and designs and manufactures Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome and then
devoted himself to the construction of the dome of St. Peter in Rome (cubic WOW). This work he was appointed in
1547 by Pope Paul III and the artist intervened in the apse. Michelangelo died
in Rome on February 18, 1564 at his home at the Forum of Trajan at the age of
90 years. The works of St. Peter finished later with the construction of the
dome he had designed with minor modifications. After his death the city of
Florence claims the remains of their fellow citizen that his nephew steals from
Rome. Today the tomb of the Renaissance genius lies in the Church of Santa
Croce(I dedicate this to you, my dear treasures, not only because I know that you come here to read my posts, but very much too because we'll go to Italy together to see these beauties that represent the roots of today's culture and timeless sense of beauty).
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