MICHELANGELO

Monday, October 26, 2009

No doubt, the leading figure in the visual arts in the cultural history of the "Renaissance," Michelangelo. Remarkably brilliant as a painter, sculptor and architect, left a fascinating work of each person who saw him for more than four centuries. His work has profoundly affected the development of painting and sculpture of Europe afterwards.

Born in Caprese, Italy in 1475, about forty miles from Florence. From the little talent was obvious, and at age thirteen he was an apprentice to the famous painter in Florence Shirlandaio. A year after that he lived in the palace of Lorenzo Medici, ruler of Florence who acts as his protector. Throughout his career of Michelangelo's talent no doubt about it. He often trusted by both the pope and secular leaders to design and create works of art. Although he lived in many places, some of its greatest spent in Rome and Florence. Died in Rome in 1564, shortly after he was past eighty-nine years. That old, not even been married.

Although he did not segenius Leonardo da Vinci the older generation, and the permissibility of Michelangelo keserbabisaan still very fascinating. He is the only artist, probably the only person, who could achieve peak performance in two different areas from each other. As a painter he was almost at the top, both in terms of quality and beauty of his influence on painters who came later. Large frescoes that decorated the walls of the Sistine church in Rome is - can not - the greatest artistic creations of past centuries. However, Michelangelo himself considered himself primarily a sculptor, and many critics who consider him the greatest sculptor who ever lived. The statue "David" and "Moses" it - for example - and the "Pieta" which is mashur artwork is not exceeded.

Michelangelo was also a great architect. One of the great work in this area is the design of the Medici church in Florence. For several years he also became chief architect of the church St. Peter's in Rome.

Make Micheangelo many poems during his lifetime, about 300 poems can be found. Sonnets-sonnets and other poems published after her death. All these poems clearly reflect his personality style, and Michelangelo had shown himself a talented poet.
Just as I explained in an article about Shakespeare, I believe that art and artists in general are not so much influence with the history of humanity and their lives everyday.

On the basis that Michelangelo - without setting aside the recognition of his greatness as an artist of genius.