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Il protagonista del Rinascimento italiano

Eleftheria-Christina Theodorou B’1

Teacher: Grigoria Menti

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Artist’s details

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buanarroti Simoni was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet and engineer. He was born on March 6,1469,in a small town near Florence. His mother died by the time Michelangelo was six years old, leaving him to live with his father.

He began to show interest in art by the age of ten. When he was 13 he was set to be an artist. Then , he became a pupil of the great sculptor Donatello. Michelangelo lived to the age 89 ,and died in 1564.

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His work

  • Michelangelo was a great leader in the Italian Renaissance. His greatest glory, painting the Sistine Chapel, began in 1508 and was completed in 1512.In the beginning he was to paint twelve pictures of apostles around the outside of the ceiling. Instead of doing so, he used the central area of the ceiling to paint the history of the Old Testament.
  • In 1491,He carved Madonna of the Stairs.It took him one year to complete it. Next,was Pieta 1498-1500 and in 1534,he began to paint The Last Judgment, located over the altar at the same church as the Sistine Chapel.

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Michelangelo was noted for use of color light and tone design .As he grew older , he became interested in the male nude.

The Creation of Adam

(1512,Sistine Chapel’s

ceiling,)

Pieta ,1497,Marble

Davide 1501-1504

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Michelangelo’s tomb monument in Santa Croce

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Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was born in 29 September 1571 and died in 18 July 1610,was an italian painter active in Rome for most of his life.

His paintings have been characterized as combining a realistic observation of the human state ,both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting.

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his paintings

Bacchus 1596-1597,Galleria degli Uffizi,Florence

Medusa ,around 1597,Galleria degli Uffizi,Florence

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…and more

Saint Jerome writing, 1605-1606

The Vocation of Saint Matthew, 1599-1600

The Cheaters, around 1595

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He was born in Pieve di Cadore in 1576 and died in 1576

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Paintings

Venus of Urbino

The Rape of Europa 1560-1562

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Born in 1445,Florence and died in May 17, 1510(age:65)

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Paintings

La nascita di Venere,1485-1486

Arianna Addormantata,1512,Galleria degli Uffizi,Florence

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Renaissance, in general

During the Renaissance era , the main concept was that it put human life , security and religion at the interior. Renaissance means ~rebirth~ and it is a perfect visualization of what the renaissance is. The Renaissance, a time defined as the rebirth of classical ideals, occurred in Italy between 1350 and 1600. Spreading quickly throughout Europe, with the innovation of the printing press, it caused rippling effects. The Renaissance ultimately altered the aged education of theology from the Dark Ages and renewed it with studies of more ancient, classic works. Classic art and literature grew extremely popular, contrasting the lack of interest in them before. Many artists became prominent advocates for the revival of the ideals of the classical past. The artists, using their masterpieces, and determined how modern historians view the era. While several aspects of the Renaissance contributed and influenced the time, artists like Michelangelo Buonarroti ,Leonardo da Vanci and Raffaello Sanzio had a stronger effect on and are greater representations of the time. The Renaissance is a period in history and a cultural movement marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity, covering the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by an effort to revive and surpass the ideas and achievements of classical antiquity, it was associated with great social change in most fields and disciplines, including art, architecture, politics, literature, exploration  and science. It began in the Republic of Florence. The term rinascita ("rebirth") first appeared in Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari, while the corresponding French word renaissance was adopted into English as the term for this period during the 1830s.�

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