A project about micelangelo

1. MICHELANGELO
WORKS OF ARTS

2. Michalangelo was an Italian Renaissance
sculptor, painter, and architect who
exerted an unparalleled influence on the
development of Western art.
He was considered the greatest living
artist in his lifetime, and ever since then
he has been held to be one of the greatest
artists of all time. A number of his works
in painting, sculpture,
and architecture rank among the most
famous in existence.

3. One work of Michelangelo that instantly comes to mind is the artist’s stunning fresco
painted on the ceiling of the Vatican City’s Sistine Chapel. Commissioned by Pope
Julius II and created between 1508 and 1512, the work – which depicts nine stories
from the Book of Genesis- is
considered one of the greatest
works of the High Renaissance.
Michelangelo himself was
apparently reluctant to take on the
project, as he saw himself as a
more accomplished sculptor than
painter, but the work nevertheless
continues to enthrall today with
around five million people flocking
to the Sistine Chapel every year to
see his masterpiece.

4. The Creation of Adam
The Creation of Adam
is a fresco painted by
Michelangelo between
1508 and 1512 on the
ceiling of the Sistine
Chapel in the Vatican
City. It depicts the
passage from the Book
of Genesis which
describes God creating
Adam and giving life to
the first man. It is one
of the most iconic
works of the
Renaissance and one of
the most reproduced
religious works.

5. Another Michelangelo masterpiece located within
the Sistine Chapel, The Last Judgment appears
on the altar wall of the church and was executed
some 25 years after the artist had painted his
awe-inspiring ceiling fresco. Often cited as one of
Michelangelo’s most complex pieces, the
magnificent work portrays God’s final judgment of
mankind and was initially quite controversial in
its depiction of nudity; in fact, the Council of Trent
condemned the fresco in 1564 and ordered
Mannerist painted Daniele da Volterra to cover up
certain parts considered obscene.
The Last Judgment

6. Quite possibly the world’s most famous sculpture,
Michelangelo’s David was sculpted over the
course of three years, beginning when the artist
was just 26 years old. Unlike many earlier
depictions of the biblical hero which portray
David triumphant after his battle with Goliath,
Michelangelo was the first artist to show him in a
tense, alert position prior to his legendary fight.
Originally positioned at Florence’s Piazza della
Signoria in 1504, the 14-foot sculpture was moved
to Galleria dell’Accademia in 1873 where it
remains today, displayed under a skylight
specially designed for the work by 19th-century
Italian architect Emilio de Fabris.
DAVID

7. Alongside David, Michelangelo’s late 15th–century work Pietà is considered
one of the artist’s greatest works and certainly one of his best-known.
Originally made for the funeral
tomb of French Cardinal Jean de
Bilhères, the evocative sculpture
depicts the Virgin Mary holding the
body of Christ after his crucifixion –
a common theme for funeral
monuments in Renaissance-era
Italy. Moved to St. Peter’s Basilica
during the 18th century, Pietà is the
only artwork Michelangelo signed,
and it has sustained considerable
damage over the years, most notably
when Hungarian-born Australian
geologist Lazlo Toth took to the
sculpture with a hammer in 1972.
Pietà

8. Michelangelo’s first large-scale sculpture Bacchus is,
alongside Pietà, one of just two sculptures that survived
from his first days in Rome, and one of the few works
the artist created focusing on pagan, rather than
Christian, subjects. The statue – which depicts the
Roman god of wine in a drunken, lolling stance – was
originally commissioned by Cardinal Raffaele Riario but
was eventually rejected by him; by the early 16th
century, though, it found a home in the garden of
banker Jacopo Galli’s Roman palace. Since 1871,
Bacchus has resided at Florence’s Museo Nazionale del
Bargello, and is displayed alongside other works by the
master including his Brutus bust and his unfinished
sculpture, David-Apollo.
Bacchus

9. Located in Rome’s beautiful Basilica di San
Pietro in Vincoli, Moses was originally
commissioned in 1505 by Pope Julius II as part
of his funeral monument, but it was not
completed until after his death. Chiseled from
marble, the sculpture is notable for its inclusion
of a pair of horns on Moses’ head – thought to be
the result of a literal interpretation of the
Vulgate, a Latin translation of the bible – and
was intended to be joined by other works
including the Dying Slave and Rebellious Slave,
housed in the Louvre in Paris.
MOSES

10. The Doni Tondo (also known as The Holy Family)
is the only known surviving panel painting by
Michelangelo. It was painted for the wealthy
Florentine banker Agnolo Doni, most likely to
commemorate his marriage to his wife Maddalena,
daughter of the prominent Tuscan noble family, the
Strozzis. Still hung in its original frame, a
beautifully ornate wooden piece designed by
Michelangelo himself, the work has resided at
Galleria degli Uffizi since 1635 and is the only
painting by the master in Florence. The Doni
Tondo’s iridescent hues and the unnatural posing
of its subjects are said to have laid the groundwork
for the later Mannerist art movement.

11. The Crucifixion of St. Peter, the final fresco
Michelangelo would paint during his lifetime,
resides in the Vatican Palace’s Cappella Paolina
and was originally commissioned by Pope Paul III
in 1541. In contrast to many other Renaissance-
era depictions of the saint, Michelangelo’s work
focuses on a much darker subject matter – his
death. A five-year-long, €3.2 million restoration
project that began in 2004 revealed a very
interesting aspect of the fresco: researchers now
believe that a blue turban clad figure in the upper
left-hand corner of the painting is actually the
artist himself, which if correct would make The
Crucifixion of St. Peter the only known
Michelangelo-painted self-portrait in existence.

12. In his latest years Michelangelo returned
in Rome to complete his last pieta knows
as the rondanini pieta. His great love
Tommaso remained with him until the end
when Michelangelo died at home in Rome
following a short illness in 1564.