michelangelo in English

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( 1475–1564 ) , Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet; full name Michelangelo Buonarroti . A leading figure of the High Renaissance, Michelangelo established his reputation with sculptures such as the Pietà ( circa 1497–1500) and David (1501–04). Under papal patronage he decorated the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome (1508–12) and painted the fresco The Last Judgment (1536–41), both important mannerist works. His architectural achievements include the completion of St. Peter's cathedral in Rome (1546–64).

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1. Many of these prissy Curbings of Michelangelo are still there

2. Michelangelo features a lobby showcased by rich Venetian and Florentine fabrics.

3. And so, compared with Adam, you might think Michelangelo is making fun of us.

4. 7 Since Michelangelo was an ardent antiquarian, all this will have been familiar territory.

5. Michelangelo didn't focus on the stuff that was being created, unlike all the other artists.

6. In 150 Pope Julius II asked Michelangelo to paint the Ceil ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

7. Among others, a masterpiece of Renaissance architecture in Rome is the Piazza del Campidoglio by Michelangelo.

8. It centers on the biography about three apotheosis of humanism, who are Beethoven, Michelangelo and Tolstoy.

9. Like Vincent Van Gogh, Michelangelo practiced self-imposed sufferings and Asceticisms in pursuit of purity and holiness

10. The Annunciation is an oil painting by the Italian master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, finished around 1608

11. Michelangelo said that when he looked at raw marble, he saw a figure struggling to be free.

12. Becoming Michelangelo: Apprenticing to the Master, and Discovering the Artist through His Drawings - Kindle edition by Pascuzzi, Alan

13. As a young boy, Michelangelo was sent to Florence to study grammar under the Humanist Francesco da Urbino.

14. Kleinbub “Michelangelo’s Inner Anatomies offers an entirely fresh perspective on Michelangelo, the Renaissance’s most original thinker on the human body

15. It owes its name to Michelangelo, who said that such a beautiful door was worthy of paradise itself.

16. Years later (1534-1541), Michelangelo painted the “Last Judgment” on the wall behind the altar in the Sistine Chapel.

17. In Sin, which Anatomizes Michelangelo Buonarroti’s creative struggle during the Renaissance, we see the specter of political pressure on the artistic spirit

18. Some modern commentators assert that the relationship was merely a Platonic affection, even suggesting that Michelangelo was seeking a surrogate son.

19. In Sin, which Anatomizes Michelangelo Buonarroti’s creative struggle during the Renaissance, we see the specter of political pressure on the artistic spirit

20. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Becoming Michelangelo: Apprenticing to the Master, and Discovering the Artist through His Drawings.

21. Michelangelo devoted four years to painting the mural that adorns the ceiling, a work depicting events in the book of Genesis and other Biblical stories.

22. The Sistine Chapel, with its ceiling decorated by Michelangelo and the Stanze di Raffaello decorated by Raphael, are on the visitor route through the Vatican Museums.

23. E. but popularly known as The Middle Finger – has the shape of a huge hand, beautifully sculpted from Carrara marble – the same material used by Michelangelo and Bernini.

24. Cartoonist Gahan Wilson, whose magazine illustrations earned him the nicknames "the Michelangelo of the Macabre" and "the Wizard of Weird," has died at …

25. Michelangelo was abstemious in his personal life, and once told his apprentice, Ascanio Condivi: "However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man."

26. On 7 December 2007, a red chalk sketch for the dome of St Peter's Basilica, possibly the last made by Michelangelo before his death, was discovered in the Vatican archives.

27. He was so affected by Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blow-Up" that in 1974 he decided to move to England, in order to become a fashion photographer, like the hero of the movie.

28. Raffaele Sansoni Galeoti Riario (3 May 1461 – 9 July 1521) was an Italian Cardinal of the Renaissance, mainly known as the constructor of the Palazzo della Cancelleria and the person who invited Michelangelo to Rome.

29. In 1513 Pope Julius II died and his successor Pope Leo X , a Medici, commissioned Michelangelo to reconstruct the façade of the basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence and to adorn it with sculptures.

30. Late in life, Michelangelo nurtured a great platonic love for the poet and noble widow Vittoria Colonna, whom he met in Rome in 1536 or 1538 and who was in her late forties at the time.

31. Becoming Michelangelo: Apprenticing to the Master, and Discovering the Artist Through His Drawings is an account of the author, Alan Pascuzzi, as he undertakes the task of copying Michelangelo's drawings as a form of apprenticeship

32. Some historians have postulated that Florence was the birthplace of the Renaissance as a result of luck, i.e. because "Great Men" were born there by chance: Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli and Michelangelo were all born in Tuscany.

33. Farinelli (Italian pronunciation: [fariˈnɛlli]; 24 January 1705 – 16 September 1782) was the stage name of Carlo Maria Michelangelo Nicola Broschi (pronounced [ˈkarlo ˈbrɔski]), a celebrated Italian Castrato singer of the 18th century and one of the greatest singers in the history of opera

34. An intact piece of the Umbrian Countryside a place of harmony and silence at the foot of the great Basilica of St Francis of Assisi; a walk through this landscape becomes an inner journey - one that inspired Michelangelo Pistoletto to create a …

35. Fresco required painting it to a newly applied layer of wet plaster, and Michelangelo, also a poet, complained in a letter to a friend, " My beard turns up to heaven my nape falls in, a rich embroidery bedews my face, from brushstrokes thick and thin. "

36. Historian Michelangelo Cagiano de Azevedo points out that along the Roman roads, “there were mansiones, full-fledged hotels, with stores, stables, and accommodations for their staff; between two successive mansiones, there were a number of mutationes, or stopover points, where one could change horses or vehicles and find supplies.”

37. 1 Appearing in "The Escape" 1.1 Main characters 1.2 Minor characters 1.3 Species 2 Synopsis 3 See also 4 Trivia Asteroidean (debut) Casey Jones Chinarian (death) DARPA Donatello Leonardo Michelangelo Nobody Raphael Triceratons Commander Tranknor Triceraton (DARPA) Louis Braunze Humans Monsters Mutant turtles Triceratons A Triceraton mothership is nearing the planet Earth