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Name: Michelangelo
Life Dates: 1475-1564
Country: Italy
Movement: High Renaissance

Michelangelo Biography

Michelangelo is certainly one of the most representative artists of the XVI century: a sculptor, painter, architect, and poet; a true Renaissance man in the best tradition of his contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci . He lived to a great age, and enjoyed great fame in his lifetime. Titian , and Venetian painting generally, was very much influenced by his vision, and he is responsible in large measure for the development of Mannerism .

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Michelangelo 70 Most Important Paintings and Artworks

Madonna Of The Stairs.
c.1490. Marble. Casa Buonarroti, Florence, Italy.
Battle Of The Centaurs.
1492. Low relief, marble. Casa Buonarroti, Florence, Italy. Read Note .
Crucifix From The Santo Spirito Convent.
c.1492. Polychrome wood. Casa Buonarroti, Florence, Italy.
Saint Proculus.
1494-1495. Marble. Basilica of San Domenico, Bologna, Italy.
Bacchus.
1496-1497. Marble. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy. Read Note .
Pieta.
1499. Marble. St. Peter's, Vatican. Read Note .
David.
1501-1504. Marble. Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy. Read Note .
David. Detail.
1501-1504. Marble. Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy. Read Note .
Tondo Pitti - Virgin And Child With The Young St. John.
1503-1504. Low relief, marble. Museo Nazionale, Bargello, Florence, Italy. Read Note .
Tondo Taddei.
1503-1504. Low relief, marble. Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK.
Virgin And Child.
c.1504. Marble. Onze Lieve-Vrouw, Bruges, Belgium.
The Battle Of Cascina, Copy After Michelangelo, Central Section Of The...
c.1542. Oil on panel. Holkham Hall, Norfolk, UK.
Doni Tondo - The Holy Family With St. John The Baptist.
c.1504-1506. Oil on panel. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy. Read Note .
The Interior Of The Sistine Chapel Showing The Ceiling Fresco.
Sistine Chapel, Vatican. Read Note .
Partial View Of The The Frescoes In The Sisine Chapel.
1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican.
The Separation Of Light And Darkness.
1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. Read Note .
The Creation Of The Sun And Moon.
1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. Read Note .
The Separation Of Land And Water.
1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. Read Note .
The Creation Of Adam.
1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. Read Note .
The Creation Of Eve.
1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. Read Note .

Michelangelo. Poems. Correspondence. Opinions of Contemporaries. Moscow. Iskusstvo. 1983.

Michelangelo: Painting. by Luciano Bellosi. Thames and Hudson. 1984

Painting of Europe. XIII-XX centuries. Encyclopedic Dictionary. Moscow. Iskusstvo. 1999.

The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone. New American Library, 1996.

Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, William E. Wallace. Beaux Arts Editions, 1998.

Michelangelo: The Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel by Marcia B. Hall, Takashi Okamura (Photographer). Harry N Abrams, 2002.

Michelangelo by Diane Stanley. HarperCollins, 2000.

Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King. Walker & Co, 2003.

Michelangelo: The Vatican Frescoes by Pierluigi De Vecchi, Gianluigi Colalucci. Abbeville Press, Inc., 1997.

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