Michelangelo
Buronarroti was born in Italy on the 6 March 1475, sculptor, painter,
architect and poet. His mother, Francesca died shortly after birth and
was a nurse who raised him, she was the daughter and wife of men who
worked with the chisel; Michelangelo would later say that, along with
the milk of the nurse, also assimilated the love the chisels and
hammers of the sculptors.
The young man, in his first sculpture created the head of a faun; this
work really impressed Lorenzo the Magnificent. Lorenzo made him
familiar with the Medici court and gave him shelter, food and 50
florins per month. For two years, Michelangelo lived in this splendid
place and was in constant contact with the great humanists of the time
who regularly visited the Medici court.
In 1496, when he was 25 years old, Michelangelo achieved fame with his
first Pietá; his first masterpiece in which Christ is
contrasted
with a very young Mary, even younger than him; the idea was to show her
always as a virgin. She is barely old enough to carry a baby and not
enough to support in her lap a dead man.
During this period, he created some of his greatest works such as the
"Gigante" to the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, however at this
stage the artist wanted to retire to pursue his other passion: poetry,
but as a sudden storm, broke into his life Pope Julius II.
That was the beginning of a very tempestuous friendship, Julius II
wanted to build his tomb, and Buronarroti designs were consistent with
his ideal of greatness. Michelangelo immediately began an incessant
work, but one day in 1501 and without any clear reasons, the Pope
changed his mind and Michelangelo left to Florence at the age of 26,
where he majestically produced the "David", this is a fully renaissance
work of art and its beauty is free of any moral concern.
A few months later, the Pope and the artist made the passes and that
was when Michelangelo was appointed as responsible for the decoration
of the Sistine Chapel; it was on All Saints' Day in 1512 when
Michelangelo deployed to an astonished world the amazing work: nine
episodes in which appeared biblical prophets, prophetess and naked
giants, thus proving his inexhaustible creative power; the figures,
appeared to be sculptured, however they were only painted.
Between 1536 and 1541 Michelangelo completed the "Last Judgment". The
frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, especially those painted by
Michelangelo, became and continue to be a paradigm of art and are the
result of greater ingenuity that has never been used in arts before;
certainly Michelangelo wanted to show his great talent and the need to
express power; from frescoes to his sculptures, all the characters are
giants that still carry in their flesh the marks of Michelangelo's
chisel.
Daniel
M Ramirez
http://www.artaroundtheworld.co.uk
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