Michelangelo

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Michelangelo Italian culture has offered a myriad of beneficial aspects, yet none like the extraordinary works of Michelangelo Buonarroti, who was born March 6, 1475 in the small village of Caprese, Italy. Michelangelo was a sculptor, an architect, a painter, and a poet that did most of his work during the Italian high renaissance. While studying one day at 15, he was invited into the household of Lorenzo de' Medici the Magnificant, (ruler of Florence 1492-1494). Michelangelo's future …

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…while in his early twenties. His first creation was his only signed work. The virgin holds the body of Christ on her lap, where as on his later pieta she no longer supports Christ, but leans over him in an embrace. Michelangelo died at the end of the Renaissance era when art was moving into the Baroque era. In my opinion, his work was well done, Michelangelo ruled the Renaissance with his artwork. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**