This report was for my humanities1 class. The instructor wasn't really looking for the proper writing technique, just that we had learned something about someone in the class. He didn't give me a number grade, he just emailed me and said that the paper was good and that he gave it an "A".
During the dates 1475-1564, there were many famous painters working all around the world. One of which was Michelangelo. He painted and sculpted many famous items that are still talked about today. Michelangelo was born in 1475 in the small village of Caprice near Arezzo At the age of 13 Michelangelo's father Ludovico Buonarroti placed Michelangelo in the workshop of the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio through connections with the ruling Medici family. About two years later Michelangelo studied at the sculpture school in the Medici gardens. Shortly thereafter he was invited into the household of the Magnificent, Lorenzo de'Medici.
The crucifixion of Haman
Jesse spandrel, before restoration
Michelangelo BuonarrotiBy the age of 16 Michelangelo had produced two relief sculptures, the battle of the Centaurs and the Madonna of the Stairs, which showed that he had achieved a very personal style at a very early age. His patron Lorenzo died in 1492; two years later Michelangelo fled Florence, when the Medici was temporarily expelled. For a while he settled in Bologna, where in 1494 and 1495 he sculpted several marble statuettes for the Arca (shrine) di San Domenico.
Michelangelo then went to Rome, where he was able to examine many newly unearthed classical statues and ruins. He soon produced his first large sculpture, the over life size Bacchus in 1496-1498. One of the few works of pagan rather than Christian subject made by the master, it rivaled ancient statuary, the highest mark of admiration in Renaissance Rome. At about the same time period Michelangelo did the marble Pieta...