Florentine, 1475 - 1564
Buonarroti, Michelangelo; Michelagnolo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Italian sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and architect. The elaborate funeral ceremonies held in Florence after Michelangelo’s death celebrated him as the greatest practitioner of the three visual arts of sculpture, painting, and architecture, and as a respected poet. He is a central figure in the history of art: one of the chief creators of the Roman High Renaissance, and the supreme representative of the Florentine valuation of disegno. As a poet and a student of anatomy, he is often cited as an example of the “universal genius” supposedly typical of the period. His professional career lasted over 70 years, during which he participated in, and often stimulated, great stylistic changes. The characteristic most closely associated with him is terribilità, a term indicative of heroic and awe-inspiring grandeur.—Anthony Hughes, Grove Art © Oxford University Press
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