The Art of Michelangelo - Pietà

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni[1] (March 6, 1475 February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.

Michelangelo's output in every field during his long life was prodigious; when the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences that survive is also taken into account, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century. Two of his best-known works, the Pietà and David, were sculpted before he turned thirty. Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. As an architect, Michelangelo pioneered the Mannerist style at the Laurentian Library. At 74 he succeeded Antonio da Sangallo the Younger as the architect of Saint Peter's Basilica. Michelangelo transformed the plan, the western end being finished to Michelangelo's design, the dome being completed after his death with some modification.

In a demonstration of Michelangelo's unique standing, he was the first Western artist whose biography was published while he was alive.[2] Two biographies were published of him during his lifetime; one of them, by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that he was the pinnacle of all artistic achievement since the beginning of the Renaissance, a viewpoint that continued to have currency in art history for centuries. In his lifetime he was also often called Il Divino ("the divine one").[3] One of the qualities most admired by his contemporaries was his terribilità, a sense of awe-inspiring grandeur, and it was the attempts of subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo's impassioned and highly personal style that resulted in the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance, Mannerism.

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[penelope1133]

He was married to the Art and his children was his work....grandiose artist !!!

[Thedoctor19000]

The actor for Michelangelo when he was producing the Pieta appearred too old. Michelangelo did the Pieta when he was only 19 years old. 

[chain000000]

@Thedoctor19000 He was 21

[qtutoringhelps]

In Squalor is the only way to work!

[30inventionman]

Who got praise for this work eventually?

[30inventionman]

Who is Pieta?

[lissie406]

algien sabe como se llama este documental o como se encuentra en español ????????

[johntechwriter]

One of the few good things I can say about the Church was that they commissioned, and provided a haven for, the greatest art of this period.

[PhilGalinsky]

@dudeinthesuit try top documentary films dot com I'm pretty sure that they have it

[PhilGalinsky]

@sea2007w1 huh?

[dudeinthesuit]

Where can i watch the entire documentary?