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Michelangelos Life Born March 6, 1475 in Caprese, Italy Mother - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Michelangelos Life Born March 6, 1475 in Caprese, Italy Mother - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Michelangelos Life Born March 6, 1475 in Caprese, Italy Mother died when he was six Grew up without affection Father wanted him to be a merchant When I told my father that I wish to be an artist, he flew into a rage,
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Michelangelo’s Life
- Born March 6, 1475 in
Caprese, Italy
- Mother died when he
was six
- Grew up without
affection
- Father wanted him to
be a merchant
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When I told my father that I wish to be an artist, he flew into a rage, 'artists are laborers, no better than shoemakers."
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Michelangelo’s Youth
- Apprenticed at age 12
to painter in Florence
- Lived with ruling
Medici family in their palace
- Started working as a
sculptor under Donatello
- Sculpted Bacchus
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Michelangelo wanted to learn about anatomy by studying corpses. The Catholic Church forbid it. He made an agreement with the Church that he could study bodies in return for a carved wooden crucifix. Studying bodies made him ill many times.
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Pieta at Saint Peter's Basilica
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David
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Michelangelo did not want to
- paint. Pope Julius II insisted he
paint the ceiling of the Sistine
- Chapel. It became
Michelangelo’s greatest work. He painted scenes from the Old Testament.
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The Sistine Chapel
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The Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
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God creates the Sun and Moon
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The Face
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Finger of God touching Adam’s finger
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God creates Eve
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Jacob and Joseph
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David and Goliath
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Jeremiah
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Jonah
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Joel
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Isaiah
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Pope Julius II commissioned him to build a magnificent tomb. Michelangelo worked on it for years, but did not finish the 40 statues ordered.
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Moses, the centerpiece
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Julius II’s tomb
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Michelangelo was commissioned to make the tombs for the Medici family.
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Statues of the Medici brothers
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Pope Paul VII Farnese asked him to paint a fresco of the Last Judgment which would be the largest painting in the world at that time.
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The Last Judgment
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Michelangelo’s last years were spent chiseling a last pieta. He wrote his best poetry near the end
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Florence, Italy.
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Michelangelo died and his body was put in a sarcophagus in
- Rome. His nephew sneaked his
body out of Rome and buried it in Florence where he wanted to be buried.
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