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Volume 3: A blow of destiny, the king appears Chapter 92: Michelangelo

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    One of the Demon Guardians: Michelangelo

    Michelangelo (1475©¤1564), full name Michelangelo, Di, Lodovico, Buonarroti Simone, also translated as Michelangelo, Michelangelo, Michelangelo, Michelangelo  Kilo.

    Michelangelo was an outstanding sculptor, architect, painter and poet during the Renaissance. Together with Leonardo da Cy and Raphael, he was known as the three masters of Renaissance art. He was famous for his strong figures, even the female body.  Also depicted are strong muscles.

    His sculptures, the David, are world-famous. The four statues of day, night, morning and dusk in front of the Medici tomb are novel in conception. In addition, famous sculptures include the statue of Moses, the Great Slave, etc.

    His most famous paintings are the "Genesis" ceiling painting and the mural "The Last Judgment" in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.

    He also designed and initially built St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, and designed and built the mausoleum of Pope Julius II.

    Michelangelo had a bad temper, was unsociable, could not get along with Darcy and Raphael, and often contradicted his benefactor, but he pursued artistic perfection throughout his life and insisted on his own artistic ideas.

    Michelangelo was born in Caprese, Florence, in 1475, and died in Rome in 1564, at the age of 88.  His style influenced artists for almost three centuries.

    The crater on asteroid 3001 and Mercury located at 450¡ãs and 1091¡ãw was named after him to show respect and commemoration.

    In 1475, Michelangelo was born in Caprese near Arezzo, Tuscany (today's Caprese Michelangelo).

    Generations of the family have been small bankers in Florence, but Michelangelo's father failed to keep the bank running and instead served intermittently in the government.

    When Michelangelo was born, his father was a judicial administrator in the small town of Caprese and a local administrator in Chiusi.

    Michelangelo¡¯s family claimed to be descended from Matilde of Canossa, Countess of Tuscany, but this has never been proven.  but.  Michelangelo was convinced of this.

    A few months after Michelangelo was born, Michelangelo¡¯s family moved to Florence, where he grew up.

    In 1481, when Michelangelo was only 6 years old, his mother died.  Michelangelo was raised by a family of masons in the small town of Setignano.  His father owned a marble quarry and a small farm in the town.

    Giorgio Vasari quotes Michelangelo: If I have any merit, it is because I was born in the wonderful atmosphere of your country Arezzo.  From my nanny's milk I acquired the knack of using a chisel and a hammer.  It's this knack that I use to create characters.

    When Michelangelo was a young boy, his father sent him to study grammar with the Florentine humanist Francesco da Urbino.

    However.  Michelangelo had no interest in going to school, preferring to copy church paintings and spend time with painters.

    At the age of thirteen, Michelangelo became an apprentice to the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio.

    When he was only fourteen years old, Michelangelo's father persuaded Ghirlandaio so that Michelangelo could receive a salary from Ghirlandaio according to the standards of a painter.  This was highly unusual at the time.

    In 1489, Lorenzo Medici, the actual ruler of Florence, asked Ghirlandaio to send him two of his best students. Ghirlandaio chose Michelangelo and Francesco  Granacci.

    Between 1490 and 1492, Michelangelo joined the Academy of Humanities established by the Medici family, which advocated Neoplatonism.

    Michelangelo studied sculpture under Bertoldo di Giovanni.  While at the Academy, Michelangelo's worldview and artistic style were influenced by the most prominent philosophers and writers of the day, including Marsilio Ficino, John Pico della Mirandola, and Poliziano  .

    During this period, Michelangelo created the relief staircase with the Madonna and the Battle of the Centaurs.  The subject matter for the latter came from Poliziano's proposal.  The work was a commission from Lorenzo Medici.

    When he was 17 years old, Pietro Torrigiano, another disciple of Bertoldo di Giovanni, hit Michelangelo in the nose during a dispute, causing him to be disfigured.  This obvious facial flaw appears in all subsequent portraits of Michelangelo.

    On April 8, 1492, Lorenzo Medici passed away.  Michelangelo's life was changed.  He left the protection of the Medici court and returned to his father's residence.

    Over the next few months, he carved a wooden crucifix (Michelangelo) as a gift to the rector of the Church of Holy Spirit in Florence.

    This church allowed Michelangelo to use the church hospitalCarry out anatomical research on the body.

    1493©¤1494.  Michelangelo purchased a large block of marble and carved it into a slightly larger than life statue of Hercules.

    The statue was later sent to France.  and was lost in the 18th century.  In 1494, after a heavy snowfall, Lorenzo de' Medici's successor, Piero II de' Medici, commissioned Michelangelo to make a sculpture out of snow, and Michelangelo returned to the Medici court.

    In the same year, the monk Savonarola rose to power and the Medici family was expelled from Florence.  Before the political turmoil ended, Michelangelo left Florence and went first to Venice and then to Bologna.

    In Bologna, he was commissioned to complete the final sculpture of several small figures for the Basilica of Santo Domingo.  In 1494, the political situation in Florence gradually calmed down.

    King Charles VIII of France was defeated, and Florence was no longer threatened by the French army.  Michelangelo returned to Florence, but Savonarola's government did not commission him to paint.

    Michelangelo then sought a commission from the Medici family again.  During the six months he spent in Florence, he created two small statues, one of a child of St. John the Baptist and the other of a sleeping Cupid.

    According to Michelangelo's biographer Ascani Condivi, Lorenzo di Pier Francesco de' Medici, who commissioned the statue of St. John the Baptist, asked Michelangelo to make the Cupid statue old.  Just like it was unearthed, so he could send the sculpture to Rome and sell it as an antique, making a lot more money.

    However, both Lorenzo and Michelangelo unknowingly fell into the trap of the middleman, who concealed the true selling price of the sculpture, causing more of the sales revenue to fall into the pockets of the middleman.

    The buyer of the sculpture, Cardinal Raphael Riario, discovered that he had purchased a fake, but was so impressed by the quality of the sculpture that he invited Michelangelo to Rome.

    The success of this creation and the unfavorable environment in Florence may have been the reasons that prompted Michelangelo to accept the bishop's invitation to go to Rome.

    In 1496, Michelangelo arrived in Rome when he was 21 years old.  In the same year, he began work on a slightly larger-than-life statue of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, for Cardinal Raphael Riorio.

    However, after the statue was completed, the Cardinal refused to accept the work.  The statue of Backus was later placed in the garden of the banker Jacopo Galli and became part of his collection.
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