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Essay on Michelangelo - Life As A Painter
During the dates 1475-1564 there were many famous painters working all around the world. One of which was Michelangelo. He painted and sculpted many famous items that are still talked about today. Michelangelo led a very busy life, as of which you will be reading about today.
Michelangelo was born in 1475 in a small village of Caprese near Arezzo At the age of 13 Michelangelo's father Ludovico Buonarroti placed Michelangelo in the workshop of the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio through connections with the ruling Medici family. About two years later Michelangelo studied at the sculpture school in the Medici gardens.
Shortly thereafter he was invited into the household of the Magnincent, Lorenzo de'Medici where he had an opportunity to converse with younger Medici, which later became Pope Leo X.
As he was also introduced to humanists as Marsilio Ficino and the poet Politician, who were frequent visitors. By the age of 16 Michelangelo had produced two relief sculptures, the battle of the Centaurs and the Madonna of the stairs, which showed that he had achieved a very personal style at a very early age.
His patron Lorenzo died in 1492; two years later Michelangelo fled Florence, when the Medici were temporarily expelled.
For a while he was settled in Bologna, where in 1494 and 1495 he sculpted several marble statuettes for the arca (shrine) di San Domenico. Michelangelo went to Rome, where he was able to examine many newly unearthed classical statues and ruins. He soon produced his first large sculpture the over life size Bacchus in 1496-1498. One of the few works of pagan rather than Christian subject made by the master, it rivaled ancient statuary, the highest mark of admiration in Renaissance Rome. At about the same time period Michelangelo did the marble Pietà in 1498. It was finished in 1500....
