MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI

MICHELANGELO'S BIRTHDATE

• March 6, 1475 in Arezzo,Italy

MICHELANGELO'S DEATH DATE

• February 18,1564

THE STATUE OF DAVID

• One of his greatest achievements
• Someone threw a chair out a window and broke his left arm in 3 pieces
• He was 14 feet 3 inches tall
• David was left handed

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THE SISTINE CHAPEL CEILING

• Michelangelo didn't want anything to do with I at first.
• He considered himself a sculptor not painter.
• It took 4 years
• One of his greatest achievements
• He had to lie on his back to paint it.

MICELANGELO'S BELIEFS

• Passionate, proud, independent and saw art as sacred
• Strong religious faith.
• Primary manner in which god shared his grace with humanity
• The Sistine chapel was religious

QUOTES OF MICHELANGELO

• "I saw the angle in the marble and carved until I set him free."
• "If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius."

CONNECTION TO HIS WORK

• He worked on the Sistine chapel painting and that was religious and he's very religious
• He had said that his sculptures and painting and art in General is god sharing his grace.

HE IS AN EXAMPLE TO HUMANISM

• He made the people in his paintings and sculptures realistic
• Put in his paintings what a human is really like.
• Looked at details and realism on a human being.
• Made people think

"GENIUS IS ETERNAL PATIENCE"

SOURCES

• Google.com
• Biography.com
• Library.thinkquest.com
• Goodreads.com