Michelangelo Buonarroti

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Michelangelo Buonarroti

• Presented
• By
• Jeffrey Love

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Birth / Birthplace

• Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475.
• He Was Born In Caprese, Italy.

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Death

• Died February 18, 1564, in Rome , Italy.
• This same year Galileo and William Shakespeare
  were born.

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Facts about growing up

• Invited to Florence by Lorenzo dMedici, where he
  studied Anatomy.
• At 23, recognized as a great sculptor.

• At 12, he became an apprentice to Domenico
  Ghirlandaio.
• Studied sculpture under a student of Donatello.

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Family Life

• Son of local minor Florentine official,and
  farmer.
• Mother dies in 1481, when Michelangelo was 6
  years old.
• Father remarries in 1485.

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Obstacles Overcome

• Michelangelos father wanted him to become a
  Florentine banker or merchant, not an artist.
• An artist was considered a lowly job.
• His dad arranges for him to study under
  Ghirlandaio.

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Style of Art

• Marble Sculptures.
• Painting.
• Architecture.
• Poetry.

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Medium

• Marble, for sculpting.
• Chalk and ink sketches.
• Various types of medium was used for his
  paintings.
• City hall walls.
• Sistine Chapel domed ceiling, and altar wall.
• Wood for tempera paintings.

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Significant Works of Art
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Major Influences

• Domenico Ghrilandaio
• Lorenzo dMedici
• Donatellos Student
• Lenardo da Vinci

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Resources

• http//hlla.com/reference/michelangelo.html
• http//thais.it/scultura/michelan.htm
• http//www-graphics.stanford.edu/projects/mic
• http//sunsite.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/michelan

• Classic to Contemporary, T.S. Denison Co. ,
  Inc.
• http//www.christusrex.org/www1/sistine/0-Tour.htm
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• http//www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/mich.h

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Resources

• http//www.artcylopedia.com/artist/michelan
• http//www.artchive.com/artchive/ftptoc/miche
• http//www.mega.it/eng/egui/pers/micboun.htm
• http//hlla.com/reference/mb-bio.html

• http//www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/michelangelo/
  
• http//www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ixbin/hi
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