life of Michael Angelo

2. MICHAEL ANGELO

3. • Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
• Born on 6 March 1475 in Caprese near Arezzo, Tuscany.
• Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who
exerted an unparalleled influence on the development ofWestern art.
• His father Ludovico di Leonardo Buonarroti Simoni, briefly took a government post
in Capres and his mother Francesca di Neri del Miniato di Siena died by the time
Michelangelo was only six years old.
• Pioneered the Mannerist style
• considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with
his rival and fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.
• He lived most of his life in Rome, where he died in February 18 1564, at age 88.

4. NOTABLE WORKS
• David
• Pieta
• The Last Judgment
• Sistine Chapel Ceiling

5. DAVID
• David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504
• It is a 5.17-metre (17.0 ft) marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue
represents the Biblical hero David, a favored subject in the art of Florence.

7. PIETA
• The Pietà (1498–1499) is a world-famous work of Renaissance sculpture.
• This famous work of art depicts the body of Jesus on the lap of his
mother Mary after the Crucifixion. The theme is of Northern origin, popular by that
time in France but not yet in Italy.

9. THE LAST JUDGMENT, OR THE LAST JUDGEMENT
• is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance executed on the altar wall of the Sistine
Chapel in Vatican City.
• It is a depiction of the Second Coming of Christ and the final and eternal
judgment by God of all humanity. The souls of humans rise and descend to
their fates, as judged by Christ surrounded by prominent saints including
Saints Catherine of Alexandria, Peter, Lawrence, Bartholomew, Paul,
Sebastian, John the Baptist, and others.