Michelangelo

One of the most famous sculptors, artists, poets, painters and architects of all time - Michelangelo Buonarotti was born on 03/06/1475 in the city of Caprese, where he studied in primary school, and upon graduation, in 1488, began to study sculpture, being a student of Bertoldo in the workshop of the greatest painter stories - Domenico Ghirlandaio.

The attention of Lorenzo Medici was attracted by the boy's talent, so he took him into his house and financially helped Michelangelo develop. When Lorenzo died, Buonarotti went to Bologna, where he erected a marble angel with a candelabra, as well as a statue for the church of St. Petronius. In 1494 he returned to Florence again. A new period of his work began, in which he boldly exaggerated the forms of nature in order to express his ideas and better convey the characters.

In 1503, Michelangelo was invited to Rome by Julius II to build a tombstone that Julius wanted to make for himself during his lifetime. The sculptor agreed and arrived. Two years later, Buonarotti considered that the pope's attention to him was not enough and, offended, returned to Florence.

In Rome, the artist was already in 1508, where he was again called by Julius II to continue the work he had begun, as well as to complete a new order - decorating the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican Palace with fresco painting. Julius II died a couple of months after the completion of the painting of the Sistine ceiling.

The fall of Florence, which threatened Michelangelo with the danger of death, produced a serious shock in his soul, and also worsened his health. And being so unsociable and harsh, he became even more unsociable and gloomy, immersed entirely in his ideological world, which could not but affect the nature of his work.

In 1488, the father resigned himself to his son's inclinations and placed him as an apprentice in the studio of the artist Domenico Ghirlandaio. Here Michelangelo got the opportunity to get acquainted with the basic materials and techniques, his pencil copies of the works of such Florentine artists as Giotto and Masaccio belong to the same period, already in these copies the sculptural vision of forms characteristic of Michelangelo was manifested[26]. His painting “The Torment of St. Anthony” (copy of an engraving by Martin Schongauer) belongs to the same period.

In 1532, he received an invitation from the "new" pope to Rome to complete the decoration of the Sistine Chapel, depicting the "Last Judgment" on the altar wall, and the "Fall of Lucifer" on the opposite. Only the first was performed by Buonarotti in 1534-1541 without assistants.

Michelangelo's last works were frescoes in the chapel of the Vatican Palace. Buonarotti parted with sculpture a little later, his favorite industry in which he worked, being in old age.

The artist was engaged in architecture, living out his last years. He was appointed in 1546 as the chief architect of Peter's Cathedral, because Michelangelo was not only talented, but also experienced in building.

Michelangelo Buonarotti died in Rome on February 18, 1564.