Michelangelo (March 6, 1475 - February 18, 1564), full name Michelangelo di Lodovico Bonarotti Simone, also translated as "Michelangelo", was an outstanding Italian Renaissance generalist, sculptor, architect, painter and poet. Michelangelo was an outstanding Italian generalist, sculptor, architect, painter and poet of the Renaissance period, known as the "Three Masters of Renaissance Art" along with Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael Sanzio, and was known for his "fitness" of his characters, with even women's bodies depicted in a muscular and robust manner.
His sculpture "Statue of David" is world-famous, and "Day", "Night", "Morning", "Evening" and "Night" in front of the tomb of the Medici family are also famous. "Day", "night", "morning", "faint" four statues of novel ideas, in addition to the famous sculpture works are "Moses", "big slaves" and so on. His most famous paintings are the "Genesis" ceiling painting and the fresco "The Last Judgment" in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican.
He also designed and initially built the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome and designed and built the tomb of Pope Julius II. Michelangelo was short-tempered and disagreeable, didn't get along with Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael, and often contradicted his benefactors, but he pursued artistic perfection throughout his life and insisted on his own artistic way of thinking. Romain Rolland wrote a biography of Michelangelo, which is categorized in Who's Who. Michelangelo is the author of David, Genesis.
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In 1498, at the age of 23, Michelangelo began work on a marble group statue, "Mourning Christ," for St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, which was completed two years later. The work is based on the biblical story of the Virgin Mary, who, after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, held her dead son in her arms in great sorrow.
The work caused an immediate sensation when it was released, as people did not believe it came from a young man, and Michelangelo had his name engraved on the sash on the Virgin's chest in the statue, which was the only work he signed in his life.
Michelangelo shaped not just a statue, but a symbol of Renaissance humanism fully embodied in art. It celebrates the human body and eulogizes justice and strength. This statue is considered to be the history of art is one of the most boastful male human statue, but also become a model for future generations of artists to learn sculpture.
In 1508, Pope Julio II asked Michelangelo to paint the dome of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. Michelangelo was reluctant to do so, but once he accepted, he sought perfection and never "blasphemed" art. It took him four years and five months to complete his masterpiece, Genesis.
"Genesis" is taken from the Old Testament? Genesis", the entire work of 511 square meters, the center of the picture by the "creation of Adam", "create Eve", "out of the Garden of Eden" and so on 9 scenes, the big picture of the surrounding paintings of the prophets and other related stories, *** painted 343 characters, of which there are more than 100 than the image of the real giants twice the size of the people, they are rich in three-dimensionality and sense of weight.