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Intro

Welcome to
The Life and Times of Michelangelo!

This site was created to enhance its viewers
of the famous Michelangelo Buonarroti.

You thought you knew, but you have no idea...
...This is the diary of Michelangelo Buonarroti...

Info

On March 6th, 1475 Michelangelo Buonarroti was born at Caprese, in Tuscany. He became the second of five brothers all born to Ludovico di Leonardo di Buonarotto Simoni (Leonardo Buonarroti) and Francesca Neri. Michelangelo had to be placed with a wet nurse due to his mother’s illness.
At six years of age, Michelangelo’s childhood had already begun to spiral downhill. This was around the time his mother died. With his childhood lacking affection and trust, he seemed to keep to himself, while being touchy and lashing out at others. Not long after his mother’s death, Buonarroti’s father began to notice his intelligence and sent him to Francesco Galeota, who taught grammar at that time.
Even though Michelangelo was born in Caprese, he spent his growing years in Florence. Beginning in the early 1400s, Florence was known for its artistic innovation during the Renaissance. At the age of 13, Michelangelo had the pleasure of working as an apprentice to Domenico Ghirlandaio. Ghirlandaio was a talented Florentine painter. Though Buonarroti’s time with the painter ended after a year full of conflict, he still picked up on certain painting techniques. Later in life, Buonarroti denies the fact that he had received any influence from Ghilandaio, even though his early drawings clearly show evidence of drawing methods from Ghirlandaio.
Lorenzo de` Medici (Lorenzo the Magnificent) was the man who took Michelangelo to reside in his home from 1490 to 1492. He was known as the leading art patron of Florence during this time period. Philosophers, poets and artists of all kind gathered at the Medici household. Living in this facility, Michelangelo got the chance to study with Gertoldo di Givanni. He was a master that had trained with Donatello, whom was the greatest sculptor of 15-century Florence. Buonarroti then learned a typed of philosophy that regards the body as a trap for a soul that longs to return to God, which is known as Neoplatonism.
The purpose of Lorenzo de` Medici was to revive the art of sculpture in the classical manner of the ancient Greeks and the Romans. Michelangelo continuously studied these topics and found great inspiration within the works. Buonarroti hoped to surpass classical art that provided inspiration and a standard of excellence. Many of Buonarroti’s beginning sculptures were made to imitate classical works. They seemed so professional that some were passed off as Roman originals.
Michelangelo was a very artistic man. So artistic that he even passed off religious beliefs through his late works. With him being a religious man, his drawings expressed such items as crucifixion and themes of Christianity. From being such an artistic man, he cam in contact with several powerful men throughout his career. Popes Julius II, Clement VII (Guilio de` Medici; who was Lorenzo’s nephew), and Paul III were a few of the church officials that he came across. Michelangelo felt that in order for him to be accepted among the others as a gentleman, he’d have to impress them. So he began working on poetry and constructing a myth of noble ancestry. While this was being done, he also began to have a feel for the physical work that produced art. This showed the development change of Buonarroti’s state from being a craftsman to an artist.

Thanks

I'd like to thank the most wonderful Pre-Calculus teacher in the Columbus Public School district!

Mr. Nunn

Outro

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