The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti

ISBN-10: 1717239986
ISBN-13: 9781717239983
Series: The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
Pages: 284
Language: English
Published: 2018-04-25
Author: John Symonds

Description

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or more commonly known by his first name Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Considered by some the greatest living artist during his lifetime, he has since been described as one of the greatest artists of all time. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his artistic versatility 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, the fellow Florentine and client of the Medici, Leonardo da Vinci.In his lifetime, Michelangelo was often called Il Divino ("the divine one"). His contemporaries often admired his terribilità-his ability to instil a sense of awe. Attempts by subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo's impassioned, highly personal style resulted in Mannerism, the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance.