The Geniuses Artist Michelangelo

Michelangelo lived from 1475-1564. He was arguably one of the most inspired creators in the history of art. As a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, he had a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on following Western art in general. Michelangelo’s father, a Florentine official named Ludovico Buonarroti with connections to the ruling Medici family, placed his 13-year-old son in the workshop of the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. After about two years, Michelangelo studied at the sculpture school in the Medici gardens and shortly thereafter was invited into the household of Lorenzo de’ Medici.

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 led a very buisy life, as of which you will be reading about today. Michelangelo was born in 1475 in a small village of Caprese 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.

Raphael’s father, Giovanni Santi, was a painter for the Duke of Urbino, Federigo da Montefeltro. Giovanni taught his young son Raphael basic painting techniques and exposed him to the principles of humanistic philosophy at the Duke of Urbino’s court. In 1494, when Raphael was just 11 years old, Giovanni died. Raphael then took over the daunting task of managing his father’s workshop. His success in this role quickly surpassed his father’s.

Charlie McLean A4 Dunn 2-20-14 Research Paper: Rough Draft Beginning Michelangelo’s art changed, as he grew old due to his change in focus. Michelangelo began to sculpt when he began working for the Medici family under Lorenzo Medici. Michelangelo’s life as a sculptor and painter made him one of the most well known artists of the Italian renaissance because of the sculptures and paintings he was able to create. Michelangelo’s Battle of the Centaurs showed the early progress in his work. When Michelangelo began to sculpt he apprenticed under Ghirlandaio.

This was the start of Michelangelo’s art career, which was prosperous until his death in 1564. After only one short unsuccessful year of working under the watch of Ghirlandaio, Michelangelo decided to leave Ghirlandaio’s studio in 1489 and began studying with Giovanni Di Bertoldo who was a sculptor employee for the Medici family. While Michelangelo was there he learned a plethora of new abilities and discovered he was a talented sculptor. Michelangelo caught the attention of many when he made his first masterpiece in the Medici gardens called the Bacchus and Sleeping Cupid. The Sleeping Cupid was sold to a Roman art dealer, who sold a counterfeit of the sculpture to Cardinal Raffaello Riario.

He was studying to be a goldsmith for a year or two when he saw a painting called, "Trinity Fresco" by Masaccio. He decided he wanted to paint just like him. He also met artists that had changed from being goldsmiths to artists, so he agreed with his family that he should be doing art. He then changed his professional plans and went to Fra Filippo Lippi in Prato, who was a professional painter, one of the most famous painters in Florence. After 3 years of hard work, Botticelli and his inspiring teacher worked together and in 1465, Botticelli started his first piece of work under the supervision of his teacher.

During this time period, Florence was rich in art culture, and the epitome of Renaissance. He quickly became immersed in his surroundings and desired to study art. His father objected because artists were hierarchical under a lower social class. Despite these objections Michelangelo was passionate and persistent. At age thirteen he became apprenticed to artist Domenico Ghirlandaio, the most well-known painter in Florence.

MICHELANGELO One of the most admired and successful artists of all time is Michelangelo. Although he was born in Caprese, a small village near Arezzo, Michelangelo grew up in Florence. His father was Ludovico Buonarroti, a Florentine official with connections to the ruling Medici family. At the age of thirteen, Michelangelo was placed as an apprentice in the workshop of Domencio Ghirlandaio. He then studied at the scuplture school in the Medici gardens.

But throughout his early years, Lorenzo considered himself Bartolo’s son, and it was Bartolo who trained the boy as a goldsmith. It was reported in the autobiographical part of his writings that Ghiberti also received training as a painter during these times, he left Florence in 1400 with a painter to work in the town of Pesaro for its ruler, Sigismondo Malatesta. In 1401 Ghiberti quickly returned to his home city once he heard of a competition being held for the commission to make a pair of bronze doors for the Baptistery of the cathedral of Florence. Six other artists and himself were given the task of representing the biblical scene of Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac in a bronze relief of quatrefoil shape, following the tradition of the first set of doors produced by Andrea Pisano. Ghiberti was chos... ... middle of paper ... ...ree from the background.

Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci was born in 1452 on his father’s estate in Vinci, Italy. He received his education on the estate until the age of fifteen. Which is when his father had noticed Leonardo’s potential and had decided to send him to be an apprentice to the artist Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence. There he studied sculpture and the mechanical arts. This was also when he first developed an interest in anatomy.