MICHELANGELO'S ART WORK

Michelangelo's Art Work

Michelangelo's Art Work

Michelangelo, one of the most famous artist and sculpturist of the Rennaisance era was born in Tuscany Italy in the year 1475. In 1501, he returned to Florence from Rome and received a lot of recognition. During this time he accomplished "David", a monumental, classicizing, heroic nude in which the body's magnificent structure of skeletal part and sinew is blended with attentive, resolute sign of the head. In 1508 he begun to decorate the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Over the centuries there has been much consideration as to the bigger significance of the whole fresco and the specific significance of the distinct figures. The monumentality, the positive mood of the subjects as well as the classicizing and idealizing forms of architecture and figures are High Renaissance (Pietrangeli, 2006).

Michelangelo's artwork consisted of paintings and sculptures that displayed humanity in it's natural state. Michelangelo's poetry was pessimistic in his answer to Strazzi even though he was complementing him. Michelangelo's sculpture brought out his optimism (King, 2003).

The Sistine Chapel Ceiling

From 1508 until 1512 Michelangelo worked on his most famous task, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. He had habitually advised himself a sculptor and opposed painting the Sistine with attribute vehemence: "I will not live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint." Only the power of the Pope Julius II compelled him into the reluctant accomplishment of the world's utmost lone fresco. He enclosed the ceiling with paintings done on damp plaster, showing nine scenes from the vintage Testament. Michelangelo later decorated "The Last Judgment" on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel.

The original ceiling of Sixtus's time was a starry Vault of Heaven in gold and lapis lazuli attributed to Pier Matteo d'Amelia. The walls of the chapel attracted attention, but the ceiling disappointed (Pietrangeli, 2006). On May 10, 1508, Julius II wrote a 3,000-ducat contract to Michelangelo to refresco the Sistine vault. Although Julius initially commissioned a particular design in oils, he relented to let Michelangelo aquello che io volevo. Michelangelo was an unwilling and complaining participant throughout the ordeal, considering himself a sculptor in Rome to fashion Julius's tomb (only his Moses was completed) not paint a ceiling. Michelangelo's charge was to build a scaffold 50 feet above the chapel floor so as not to obstruct ongoing liturgy and ceremony; to cut away the existing fresco and lay ...