Renaissance Artist

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

6 March 1475 - 18 February 1564 (aged 88)

Michelangelo Buonarroti was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet and engineer of High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence of the great development of Western Art. he was considered as the great artist of all time. Despite of making a few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a  contender for a title of the archetypal Renaissance man.

Masterpieces:

"DAVID"

It was created by Michelangelo in 1501 and finished it on 1504. it is a 15.17 meter statue. It was placed in Galleria dell'Accademia Florence. It is a marble statue of a male that is nude. it actually represents the hero in the bible named David. The statue soon came to symbolize the defense of civil liberties embodied in the Republic of florence.

"THE PIETA"

Created in 1498 - 1499 by Michelangelo. as you can see in the picture that Mary actually carries Jesus because He is wounded. The structure is pyramidal, and the vertex coincides with Mary's head. Much of Mary's body in concealed by her monumental drapery, and the relationship of the figures appears quite natural. Michelangelo's interpretation or the Pieta was far different from those previously created by other artists, as he scupted a young and beautiful Mary rather than an older woman around 50 years of age.

"Sistine Chapel ceiling"

Created also by Michelangelo. He started this plan about 1508 and ended it on 1512. the ceiling's various painted elements form part of a larger scheme of decoration within the Chapel which includes the large fresco The Last Judgement on the sanctuary wall, also by Michelangelo. when you personally look at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel you'll see nine scenes from the Book of Genesis of which The Creation of Adam is the best known , having an iconic standing equalled only by Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the hands of God and Adam being reproduced in countless imitations. You will also see the hands that are connected in there.