MICHELANGELO

MICHELANGELO

ABOUT MICHELANGELO

• He was a great Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet.    

• He was born near Florence in Italy in 1475.    

• As a young boy he showed great artistic talent and was apprenticed to Ghiflando.    

• Lorenzo de Medici recognized his talents and became his patron and treated him as a member of his family.

ABOUT MICHELANGELO

• When Lorenzo died, Michelangelo moved to Rome.  There he sculpted the Pieta (the pitty) a marble statue of the dead Christ in his mother's arms. 

• Michelangelo later returned to Florence and sculpted a five metre high statue of the biblical character David.  

ABOUT MICHELANGELO

• Back in Rome Michelangelo was hired by Pope Jullius II to paint scenes from the Old Testament on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.  It's a fresco this means painting on wet plaster it took four years to complete.     

• Michelangelo also painted The Last Judgment behind the alter of the Sistine Chapel.  

ABOUT MICHELANGELO

• Before his death he designed the great dome of  St. Peters Basilica.  This shows that he was a gifted architect as well as a great sculptor and painter.   

• Michelangelo died and was buried in Rome at the age of 89.  He was reburied in Florence.   

STATUES

THE PIETA STATUE OF DAVID

PAINTINGS

CREATION OF ADAM