1. Michelangelo Buonarroti BY-

2. Who is Michelangelo?  Born on March 6, 1475  Caprese, Italy  Second of five sons.  Died on February 18, 1564 (Age 88)  Rome, Italy  Family in the banking business  Father- Leonardo di Buonarrota  Mother- Francesca Neri  Unable to care for Michelangelo; A stonecutter family cared for him.  Taught by Domenico Ghirlandaio (a popular artist in Florence)  Skill of fresco painting  At 16 he attended a special school for the study of sculpture founded by Lorenzo de Medici.

3. Style of Art / Medium  Marble Sculpture  Painting  Architecture  Poetry  Sculpting  Marble  Sketches  Chalk  Black  Red (Known as Sanguine)  Ink  Charcoal  Types of medium  City hall walls  Sistine Chapel domed ceiling and alter wall

4. David and The Sistine Chapel  The statue of David was created from 1501-1504  14.0 feet marble statue  Biblical hero David  Represented as a standing nude male  Location  Courtyard of the Opera del Duomo.  Galleria dell’ Accademia – or Accademia Gallery – in Florence, Italy (Today)  The Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted between 1508 and 1512.  Pope Julius II asked Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel.  Michelangelo wrote a poem about his unpleasant experience painting the Sistine Chapel.  Contains more than 300 figures.  Depicts nine stories from the book of Genesis including the famous “Creation of Adam”.

5. David and The Sistine Chapel

6. Rival Artists of the High Renaissance Period Leonardo da Vinci  1452-1519  Painter, inventor, architect, engineer and a scientist.  Apprentice of a sculptor and painter in Florence at a young age  Said to have surpassed his teacher in the art of painting very quickly.  A few paintings by Leonardo  The Mona Lisa  The Fresco  The Last Supper Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)  1483- April 6, 1520  Italian city of Urbino in the Marches area of Italy  Italian painter, architect, drawer, and with Raimondi a printmaker of his engravings.  Noted for his clarity of form and ability to convey grandeur, beauty and perfection.  Education  Arts  Literature  Social skills  Compared to Michelangelo, Raphael had little to no trouble in social circles.  Style- more refined  A few works of art-  Mond de Crucifixion in 1503  St. George Fighting The Dragon  Cherubini  The school of Athens  Lady with Unicorn

7. Major Influences  Domenico Ghrilandaio  Lorenzo Ghiberti  Bertoldo di Giovanni

8. Contributions to the Renaissance  Through his work of humanism and nature he introduced new techniques of proportion, contrast, shading, and atmospheric perspective.

9. Concluding Thinking Skills Questions

10. References  http://www.howtodrawjourney.com/michelangelo-art.html http://www.howtodrawjourney.com/michelangelo-art.html  http://entertainmentguide.local.com/style-art-did-michelangelo- use-4389.html http://entertainmentguide.local.com/style-art-did-michelangelo- use-4389.html  http://www.accademia.org/explore- museum/artworks/michelangelos-david/ http://www.accademia.org/explore- museum/artworks/michelangelos-david/  http://www.history.com/news/7-things-you-may-not-know-about- the-sistine-chapel http://www.history.com/news/7-things-you-may-not-know-about- the-sistine-chapel  http://www.biography.com/people/michelangelo-9407628 http://www.biography.com/people/michelangelo-9407628  http://www.raphaelsanzio.org/ http://www.raphaelsanzio.org/