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Michelangelo

Michelangelo Buonarroti was born on March 6 , 1475 , in the Florentine family of the local governor , Ludovico Buonarroti , in Caprese Afterwards , the family came to Florence , where Ludovico owned a farm in a small village of Settignano , which was surrounded by hills post-marked with quarries ( HYPERLINK "http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /John_Wyndham_Pope-Hennessy " \o "John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy " Hennessy 14 . Here , Michelangelo spent a lot of time of his childhood and first took interest in studying stone carving So , having learned

reading , writing and counting , Michelangelo became an apprentice of a very famous painter , HYPERLINK "http /www .televisual .it /uffizi /d_ghirla .html " Domenico Ghirlandaio

Ghirlandaio 's workshop had a huge impact on Michelangelo . Here , he became familiar with the main materials and technologies and created the pencil copies of works of the great Florentine artists (Hall 54 . It should be emphasized that the certain treatment of forms , typical for Michelangelo appeared in those copies

Soon , Michelangelo started working on the sculptures for the Medici collection and attracted attention of the most learned men of the century , HYPERLINK "http /www .lucidcafe .com /library /96jan /lorenzo .html " Lorenzo Medici who was also known as the Magnificent . In 1940 , Michelangelo came to the Medici household and lived there till Lorenzo died in 1942 (Hall 55

Lorenzo Medici was a friend of many famous people of that time : poets philologists , philosophers , commentators poet . It should be emphasized that Lorenzo himself was a wonderful poet of that time . The circle of his friends included such exceptionally learned and cultivated men as Angelo Poliziano , Marsilio Ficino and other popular persons (Wallace 33 . Michelangelo gained a lot of knowledge and experience from the intellectuals of Lorenzo 's humanist circle

Taking into consideration Michelangelo 's perception of reality , we can see that his views belong to Neo-Platonism . He considered a sculpture as the art of releasing ' a figure from a stone block . It is obvious that some of his masterpieces seem to be unfinished as at this stage of releasing ' their forms could reflect the intent of an artist in the most adequate way . Also , young Michelangelo was influenced by optimistic philosophy of humanism and believed in unlimited potential of a man

In 1494 , due to the danger of invasion of the French army Michelangelo had to leave Florence and on his way to Venice he stayed for some time in Bologna , where he created three small statues , which were missing from the tomb of St . Dominic in the church of San Domenico due to the sudden death of an artist , who started working on the composition (Berenson 11

In a year Michelangelo turned back to Florence and then came to Rome where he spent five years and at the end of 1940-s created two works which became the masterpieces of the art history afterwards (Bull 102

The first of them was Bacchus statue intended for all-around looking The backward drooping left shoulder , the listless tilt of the head , the utterly...