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The following is a list of works of painting, sculpture and architecture by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Lost works are included, but not commissions that Michelangelo never made. Michelangelo also left many drawings, sketches, and some works in poetry.
Michelangelo however, felt that the torso was the powerhouse of the male body, and therefore warranted significant attention and mass in his art pieces. [ 32 ] [ failed verification ] Thus, the torso in the Study represents an idealization of the male form, "symbolic of the perfection of God's creation before the fall ".
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni [a] (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, [b] [1] was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, [2] and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art.
The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is one of the most renowned artworks of the High Renaissance. Central to the ceiling decoration are nine scenes from the Book of Genesis of which The Creation of Adam is the best known, the hands of God and Adam being reproduced in countless imitations.
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Raphael, companion portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife, Maddelena Doni, for whom Michelangelo's Doni Tondo was commissioned. Andrea del Sarto, The Young John the Baptist; Andrea del Sarto, Disputation on the Holy Trinity; Sebastiano del Piombo, Martyrdom of St Agatha; Titian, Mary Magdalene; Titian, Portrait of Pietro Aretino
The Dying Slave is a sculpture by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Created between 1513 and 1516, it was to serve with another figure, the Rebellious Slave, at the tomb of Pope Julius II. [1] It is a marble figure 2.15 metres (7' 4") in height, and is exhibited at the Louvre, Paris.
The following is a very incomplete list of notable works in the collections of the Musée du Louvre in Paris. For a list of works based on 5,500 paintings catalogued in the Joconde database, see the Catalog of paintings in the Louvre Museum.