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Michelangelo Buonarroti, usually known just by his first name, is one of the most influential and identifiable artists in history. While best known as one of the pioneers of the Italian High Renaissance style, Michelangelo was also one of the founders of the Mannerist style of art and architecture. Michelangelo achieved fame in his lifetime, and legend in history through his paintings, sculpture, architecture and poetry. Michelangelo is noted for his prolific output of work in all of these genres, creating a lasting cannon that has never ceased to inspire the modern artist. Some of Michelangelo's most profound and recognizable achievements include the statue of David, the Pieta and the fresco that remains on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel entitled The Last Judgment. Michelangelo is also credited for having designed portions of Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.

Michelangelo was born in Caprese, in Tuscany in 1475. The Buonarroti family was middle class, having made their careers as bankers for generations. From a very young age Michelangelo was inclined towards the art and often spent his time copying paintings at local churches to the detriment of his school work. Soon, Michelangelo made his way into an academy where he studied sculpture under Bertoldo di Giovanni and soon found a place in the Medici court, creating many pieces of art for that family.

The summer when he was 21 Michelangelo moved to Rome, where he remained for some time and created some of his most notable works including the Pieta and The Last Judgment. Upon compeltion of the Pieta, Michelangelo increased in local fame. One contemporary critic said of this work “it is certainly a miracle that a formless block of stone could ever have been reduced to a perfection that nature is scarcely able to create in the flesh.” And such was the work of Michelangelo, an artist who could take raw materials and turn them into moving portraits that speak volumes of the human heart.

The distinct Renaissance style of art is always persistent in Michelangelo's work. Michelangelo was able to take ancient traditions and recreate them, using the most basic tenents of ancient art and improving upon them to create more fluidity of movement and greater emotional impact. This is perhaps most evident in his sculptural work. In his paintings, Michelangelo subscribed to other Renaissance standards, incorporating studies of light, foreshortening, creative uses of perspective, an emphasis on detailed anatomy and a profound fascination with the natural world. The culmination of all of these facets, indicative mostly of the High Renaissance style, creating more human emotional impact in the subjects, and resonate more deeply with viewers. If you are interested in exploring some paintings that similarly share great emotional impact, please view the many canvas paintings in our Landscape Canvas gallery. The expressiveness of human anatomy is what art historians note Michelangelo most for, and his works that depict this most strongly have influenced generations of artists, and will likely continue to do so.
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