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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) Painter, sculptor, architect, poet—“Renaissance man” ( uomo universale )

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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)

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  1. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) • Painter, sculptor, architect, poet—“Renaissance man” (uomo universale) • “Among all those artists, living and dead, he who wins the prize, transcending all others, is Michelangelo Buonarroti; he reigns supreme not only in one art, but in all three [i.e. painting, sculpture, and architecture]. He has triumphed not only over all those artists who have almost vanquished Nature herself, but without a shadow of a doubt he has surpassed the most celebrated ancients whose works are so praised.”—Giorgio Vasari (1550) • 1475: Born in a village near Florence; nursed by a stone mason’s wife • 1490-92: “Discovered” by Lorenzo de’ Medici; resides in Medici Palace • 1505-13: Patronized by Pope Julius II in Rome (Sistine Chapel, etc.) • 1513-34: Patronized by Popes Leo X and Clement VII (son and nephew of Lorenzo de’ Medici) in Rome and Florence

  2. Michelangelo, David, 1501-04

  3. Donatello, 1420s-60s Michelangelo, 1501-04

  4. Rear view showing strap of sling running down back

  5. “Nowhere does God, in his Grace, reveal himself to me more clearly than in some sublime human form, which I love solely because it is a mirror image of Himself.” —Excerpt from Michelangelo’s sonnet On Heaven-Born Beauty

  6. Detail

  7. David’s right hand

  8. David’s head

  9. 19th-century copy of the David in its original location, guarding the entranceway to the Palazzo Vecchio Palazzo Vecchio (city hall of Florence)

  10. Interior of Sistine Chapel filled with tourists Sistine Chapel in Rome, named after Pope Sixtus IV

  11. Michelangelo painted the ceiling in the four year period 1508-12

  12. Sistine Chapel during the reign of Pope Sixtus IV (modern reconstruction) Note Perugino’s Delivery of the Keys

  13. The first three acts of Creation

  14. Central section of the ceiling, showing three scenes relating to Adam and Eve Note one of the Prophets at the left and one of the Sibyls at the right.

  15. A clearer view

  16. Three scenes from the story of Noah

  17. Noah scenes rotated counter-clockwise Note pairs of ignudi

  18. Ignudo

  19. David Ignudo

  20. Pair of ignudi

  21. Later pair of ignudi

  22. Early ignudo Late ignudo

  23. Early ignudo Late ignudo

  24. Fall of Man and Expulsion from the Garden of Eden

  25. The Creation of Adam

  26. The hands of Adam (left) and God (right)

  27. So-called Awakening Prisoner (unfinished statue planned for the Tomb of Pope Julius II, c. 1525)

  28. David

  29. Ignudo from Sistine Ceiling

  30. Plan of San Lorenzo, with New Sacristy at upper right The New Sacristy of San Lorenzo, better known as the Medici Chapel, 1519-34

  31. Tomb of Lorenzo de’ Medici Tomb of Giuliano de’ Medici

  32. Lorenzo (“contemplative”) Giuliano (“active”)

  33. Giuliano de’ Medici Ignudo from Sistine Ceiling

  34. Night Day

  35. Night Detail

  36. Night Detail: owl and wreath with poppy capsules

  37. Detail: mask Night

  38. Day Ignudo from Sistine Ceiling

  39. Day Detail

  40. Day Detail

  41. Twilight Dawn

  42. Twilight Dawn

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