Michael Angelo
Biography
- Born-March 6th,1475
- Died-February 18th,1564
- Place-Caprese(republic of Florence,Italy)
- Spent most of his life inFlorence Italy
Education
- Attended a local school for several years
- ignored his education and focused on drawing
- joined a painting studio at 13 as an apprentice
- 1489 moved to a sculpture school
- Bertoldo di Giovanni his teacher was a resident of the Lorenzo de' Medici household an important art school, asked him to live and serve with him at the household
- In 1495 he returned to Florence and worked for a smaller art school and created sculptures for them
- In 1496 he met a wealthy banker who commissioned him to do a statue which was one of his first known pieces
- After that he returned to Florence and had no trouble finding work
Life
- Michaels early life was tough
- his mom died at age 6
- dad had had time finding work
- had very little money
- was forced to work so he could help provide for his family
- got lucky by meeting people that could help him work towards what he really loved to do
- went a lot of different places which gave him many good opportunities
- got to do what he loved for his whole life
- got good jobs because he was god at what he did
- people knew him which made him more popular as a sculpture
Type of work
- Michael angelo started out drawing
- got into paintings
- went on to do sculptures
- known for famous things like paintings,drawings,and sculptures
Patrons
- His patrons were the people who asked him to sculpt or draw for him
His Work
http://blueaquini.blogspot.com/2010/05/michael-angelos-amazing-paintings-on.html
- The name of this piece is called The sistine Chapel
- This piece was created beetween 1508 and 1512
- The signifigance of this piece id that it was one of the biggest and most famous pieces that he ever created
- I think this piece is interesting because it shows what he can do and how his talent impacted it
Renaissance ISMS
- I think the ism that Michael Angelo is associated wit is Secularism because he focuses on what he is doing in the here and now not worrying about the future
- also he looks at the actual world when he paints like what he draws and how he draws them
Michael Angelo and some of his work
- http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rodwell-South-By-East/pages/052-Michael-Angelo/052-Michael-Angelo-q75-1374x1618.jpg
- http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Life_of_Michael_Angelo,_1912_-_Pieta.jpg/400px-Life_of_Michael_Angelo,_1912_-_Pieta.jpg
- http://www.starscolor.com/images/michael-angelo-02.jpg