Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

Full Name of Artist (birthname)-Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

Born-March 6,1475 near florence Italy village Caprese.

Died-Feburary 18, 1564 at the age 89 years old.

Art Medium/materials-He uesd big blocks of marble.

Subject/genre-The artist sculpted the fresco painting. He was interested is in architecture painting, poetry, sculpture he drew people/studied animals and science in order to make his works of art as lifelike as possible.

Art movement/period of artist- sculpter and renaissance artist.

Title of artwork- Pieta Year it was created-1498-1499 Medium-marble

An interesting fact about my artist: He was a poet

His father was a government agent in the village of Caprese . He painted the Sistine Chaple on the ceiling.

He began traveling after the Medici family lost power in 1494.

He is best known for scuplting human bodys. He sculpted //The David// which was a human body.

The unfinished Saint Michel shows how MichelAngelo started one of his statues.

"Moses", one of MichelAngelo's most impressive works,took four years to carve from a huge block of marble.

He worked on the Sistine Chapel for four years.

MichelAngelo was a master of architecture, painting, and poetry. But his favorite art was making statues of people.

Works Cited: Venezia,Mike//. Michelangelo//. Chicago: Childrens press, 1991. Summers, David. "Michaelangelo." World Book Student. World Book, 2011. Web. 10 Feb. 2011. Raboff, Ernest. //Michelangelo Art for Children.// New York /J.B. Lippincott 1988