Michelangelo was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer considered the greatest living artist of his lifetime. He sculpted two of his most famous works, Pietà and David, before turning 30. As an artist, he created the iconic frescoes on the ceiling and The Last Judgment wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Later in life, he became the architect of St. Peter's Basilica at age 74. Michelangelo was admired for his terribilità style, conveying a sense of awe and grandeur that influenced later art movements like Mannerism.

1. 1475 –1564
Michelangelo

2. Biography
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was
an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and
engineer.
He was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime. Two
of his best-known works, the Pietà and David, were sculpted
before he turned thirty. He 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. At 74 he became
the architect of St. Peter's Basilica.
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
Mannerism, the next major movement in Western art after the
High Renaissance.

3. Early life
Madonna of the stairs
Battle of the Centaurs

4. Early adulthood
Arca di San Domenico
Child with St John the Baptist

5. Rome
Bacchus
Pietà

6. Rome
Laocoön
and His Sons

7. Main works
The Statue of David,
completed by
Michelangelo in 1504,
is one of the most
famous works of the
Renaissance.

8. Main works
Doni Tondo
Main works
Manchester Madonna

9. Main works
Sistine Chapel ceiling

10. Main works
The Separation of Light and Darkness

11. Main works
The Creation of the Sun, Moon and Earth

12. Main works
The Separation of Land and Water

13. Main works
The Creation of Adam

14. Main works
The Creation of Eve

15. Main works
The Temptation and Expulsion (Fall of man)

16. Main works
The Sacrifice of Noah

17. Main works
The Great Flood

18. Main works
The Drunkenness of Noah

19. Main works
Michelangelo's rendering of
the Delphic Sibyl

20. The End
Michelangelo's own tomb at
Basilica of Santa Croce,
Florence