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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 ...
Kimbell Art Museum, purchased from Sotheby's auction, Catalogue of Old Masters sale (Lot No. 69), 9 July 2008 by Adam Williams Fine Art, New York, as "Workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio". Subsequently purchased by the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas and attributed to Michelangelo. [10] [11] Madonna and Child with Saint John and Angels
Michelangelo (1475−1564) — renowned Italian Renaissance architect, artist, painter, and sculptor. Subcategories ... Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger; C.
Artists and architects. Filippo Brunelleschi Albrecht Dürer Michelangelo Sandro Botticelli Titian El Greco. ... List of Renaissance figures.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian High Renaissance painter, architect, sculptor under the patronage of the popes of Rome during the reconstruction of St. Peter’s Basilica, from the Renaissance towards the early Counter-Reformation era; renowned for painting, among others, the Last Judgment and the Sistine Chapel ceiling [349]
The Agony and the Ecstasy is a biographical novel of Michelangelo Buonarroti written by American author Irving Stone.Stone lived in Italy for years visiting many of the locations in Rome and Florence, worked in marble quarries, and apprenticed himself to a marble sculptor.
Michelangelo carved the words on the sash running across Mary's chest. MICHÆL ANGELVS BONAROTVS FLORENTINVS FACIEBAT (English: "Michael Angelo Buonarroti, the Florentine created this. ") The signature echoes one used by the ancient Greek artists Apelles and Polykleitos. It was the only work he ever signed.
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori), often simply known as The Lives (Italian: Le Vite), is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older ...