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  2. Michelangelo - Wikipedia

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    Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born on 6 March 1475 [c] in Caprese, known today as Caprese Michelangelo, a small town situated in Valtiberina, [10] near Arezzo, Tuscany. [11] For several generations, his family had been small-scale bankers in Florence ; but the bank failed, and his father Ludovico briefly took a government post ...

  3. Pietà (Michelangelo) - Wikipedia

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    According to Giorgio Vasari, shortly after the installation of his Pietà, Michelangelo overheard someone remark (or asked visitors about the sculptor) that it was the work of another sculptor, Cristoforo Solari, whereupon Michelangelo signed the sculpture. [11] Michelangelo carved the words on the sash running across Mary's chest.

  4. List of works by Michelangelo - Wikipedia

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    Importuno di Michelangelo: c. 1504 Palazzo Vecchio, Florence Pietraforte Rothschild Bronzes [6] 1506–1508 Fitzwilliam Museum: Bronze Male torso I (in Italian) c. 1513: Casa Buonarroti, Florence Terracotta height 23 cm Male torso II (in Italian) c. 1513: Casa Buonarroti, Florence Terracotta height 22,5 cm Naked woman scale model (in Italian)

  5. Michelangelo’s iconic Sistine Chapel painting may depict ...

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    Renaissance figure Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, according to researchers.. The ...

  6. The Torment of Saint Anthony - Wikipedia

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    The Torment of Saint Anthony [2] (or The Temptation of Saint Anthony, c. 1487–88) is a painting by Michelangelo, who painted this close copy of the famous engraving by Martin Schongauer when he was only 12 or 13 years old. Whether the painting is by Michelangelo is disputed. [3] This painting is now in the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.

  7. The Crucifixion of Saint Peter (Michelangelo) - Wikipedia

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    Michelangelo concentrated the attention on the depiction of pain and suffering. The faces of the people present are clearly distressed. Pope Paul III commissioned this fresco by Michelangelo in 1541 and unveiled it in his Cappella Paolina. Restoration of the fresco completed in 2009 revealed an image believed to be a self-portrait of ...

  8. The Last Judgment (Michelangelo) - Wikipedia

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    Where traditional compositions generally contrast an ordered, harmonious heavenly world above with the tumultuous events taking place in the earthly zone below, in Michelangelo's conception the arrangement and posing of the figures across the entire painting give an impression of agitation and excitement, [4] and even in the upper parts there is "a profound disturbance, tension and commotion ...

  9. FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Michelangelo’s David has been a towering figure in Italian culture since its completion in 1504. But in the current era of the quick buck, curators worry the marble ...