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Michelangelo

Italian High Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.

Michelangelo

Attributed to Daniele da Volterra · via Wikipedia: Michelangelo · Public domain

Michelangelo's birthplace was the Republic of Florence, yet from around age 30 he primarily worked in Rome.[1] Classical antiquity provided the inspiration for Michelangelo's art, which subsequently exerted a permanent impact on Western artistic traditions.[1]

Quick Facts

Birth name
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Born
6 March 1475
Birthplace
Caprese, Florence
Died
18 February 1564
Place of death
Rome, Papal States
Field
  • Sculpture
  • painting
  • architecture
  • poetry
Movement
High Renaissance, Mannerism

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

Michelangelo was born on 6 March 1475 in Caprese, near Arezzo, Tuscany.[2] At age 13 he was apprenticed to Domenico Ghirlandaio, a master in fresco painting.[3] He wrote more than three hundred sonnets and madrigals.[4] At age 21, Michelangelo reached Rome on 25 June 1496.[5]

Michelangelo completed both the Pietà and David, two of his most renowned sculptures, before turning 30.[6] The Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted by Michelangelo over roughly four years, from 1508 through 1512.[7] Michelangelo held deep Catholic beliefs, and his religious devotion grew stronger as he neared the end of his life.[8]

What the cited sources add

The Barenboim and Shiyan account notes that the New Sacristy of San Lorenzo is the only architectural and sculptural complex Michelangelo could bring to completion as he had designed it.[9] The same source states that Michelangelo used his own discretion to create the Medici Chapel's composition.[9] A Guardian article reports that Michelangelo hid for about two months in a chamber under the Medici Chapels in 1530, evading a death sentence from Pope Clement VII.[10] The article adds that the charcoal and chalk drawings in that room remained unknown until 1975.[10]

According to Goldscheider's publication, Michelangelo was responsible for designing the Palazzo Farnese's upper story as well as the interior layout of Santa Maria degli Angeli.[11][12]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Michelangelo" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: ; Marinazzo, "Michelangelo. Il Disegno", Giunti, 2025; Symonds, "The Life of Michelangelo", BookRix, 2019; Vasari, "The Lives of the Artists", Oxford University Press, 2008 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Michelangelo" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Unione Montana dei Comuni della Valtiberina Toscana, www.cm-valtiberina.toscana.it; J. de Tolnay, The Youth of Michelangelo, p. 11; (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Michelangelo" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Coughlan, pp. 35–40; R. Liebert, Michelangelo: A Psychoanalytic Study of his Life and Images, p. 59; C. Clément, Michelangelo, p. 7; C. Clément, Michelangelo, p. 9 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Michelangelo" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Jeffrey Fraiman, "James M. Saslow on Sensuality and Spirituality in Michelangelo's Poetry", Met museum, 5 January 2018 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Michelangelo" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: J. de Tolnay, The Youth of Michelangelo, pp. 26–28 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Michelangelo" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Marinazzo, "Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine", Mandragora, 2025 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Michelangelo" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Marinazzo, "Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine", Mandragora, 2025; Marinazzo, "La Tomba di Giulio II e l'architettura dipinta della volta della Sistina", Art e Dossier, 2018, p. 46–51; Bartz and König, p. 134; Coughlan, p. 112; Goldscheider, "Michelangelo: Paintings, Sculptures, Architecture", Phaidon Publishers, 1962, p. 12; "The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance", Oxford University Press, 2005; Osborne, "The Oxford Companion to Western Art", Oxford University Press, 2003 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Michelangelo" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Crucifixion by Michelangelo, a drawing in black chalk", The British Museum; "Are there any well-known or famous Secular Franciscans?", Secular Franciscan Order – USA, 25 Apr 2023 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Barenboim, Peter; Sergey Shiyan, Michelangelo: Mysteries of Medici Chapel, SLOVO, Moscow, 2006. .. facts only, no text reused. florentine-society.ru
  10. Giuffrida, "Michelangelo's secret sketches under church in Florence open to public", The Guardian, 31 October 2023. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
  11. Goldscheider, "Michelangelo: Paintings, Sculptures, Architecture", Phaidon Publishers, 1962, p. 8. facts only, no text reused. archive.org
  12. Wikipedia, "Michelangelo" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Goldscheider, "Michelangelo: Paintings, Sculptures, Architecture", Phaidon Publishers, 1962, p. 8 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Michelangelo (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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