Michelangelo

What can a single sheet of paper reveal about the complex life of an artistic genius like Michelangelo Buonarroti? William Wallace, an art historian and author of Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and his Times, reveals how documents - including one extremely rare document in Washington University's own library - provide a window into Michelangelo's life and art.This episode was originally released in April 2016. Transcript:Claire Navarro: Hello, and thank you for listening to Hold That…

The immediate occasion for the chapel was the deaths of the two young family heirs (named Giuliano and Lorenzo after their forebears) in 1516 and 1519. Michelangelo gave his chief attention up to 1527 to the marble interior of this chapel, to both the very original wall design and the carved figures on the tombs; the latter are an extension in organic form of the dynamic shapes of the wall details. The result is the fullest existing presentation of Michelangelo’s intentions. Windows…

Pieta Michelangelo Buonarroti 1499 St Peter's Basilica Rome

Artist. One of the most famed and celebrated sculptors, architects and painters in world history, his father had close connections with the Medici family. When Michelangelo was 13, he was sent to painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. After two years he come at the sculpture school in the Medici gardens. His works Battle of the...

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Fun fact, Michelangelo's David has weak ankles. Cracks have formed over the last 500 years and it's in serious trouble if an earthquake hits Florence. Scary to think that something frequently held up as an exemplar of culture might be vulnerable is pretty alarming. In David's Ankles, New York Times' Sam Anderson probes

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‘Study for an ignudo’ was created in c.1508 by Michelangelo in High Renaissance style. Find more prominent pieces of sketch and study at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.