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            Michelangelo is certainly the most representative artist of the XVI century: a sculptor, painter, architect, and poet. He lived to a great age, and enjoyed great fame in his lifetime. Titian, and Venetian painting generally, was very much influenced by his vision, and he is responsible in large measure for the development of Mannerism.
             Michelangelo di Ludovico di Lionardo di Buonarroti Simoni was born in 1475; at Caprese, in Casentino. His family Buonarroti Simoni, are mentioned in the Florentine chronicles as early as the XII century. In 1488, at the age of 13, he entered the workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio. Thus he came under the influence of Masaccio, because his teacher, Ghirlandaio, not only looked to Masaccio for ideas on religious scenes, but actually imitated certain elements of his designs. After less than a year he moved to the academy set up by Lorenzo the Magnificent. From 1489 till 1492, he lived in the Palazzo Medici in Via Larga, where he could study “antique and good statues” and could meet the sophisticated humanists and writers of the Medici circle. Continued...

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	Madonna of the Stairs. c.1490. Marble. Casa Buonarroti, Florence, Italy.
	Battle of the Centaurs. 1492. Low relief, marble. Casa Buonarroti, Florence, Italy. More.
	Crucifix from the Santo Spirito Convent. c.1492. Polychrome wood. Casa Buonarroti, Florence, Italy.
	Saint Proculus. 1494-1495. Marble. Basilica of San Domenico, Bologna, Italy.
	Bacchus. 1496-1497. Marble. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy. More.
	Pieta. 1499. Marble. St. Peter's, Vatican.
	Pieta (detail). 1499. Marble. St. Peter's, Vatican.
	Pieta (detail). 1499. Marble. St. Peter's, Vatican.
	David. 1501-1504. Marble. Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy. More.
	David (detail). 1501-1504. Marble. Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy. More.
	Tondo Pitti - Virgin and Child with the Young St. John. 1503-1504. Low relief, marble. Museo Nazionale, Bargello, Florence, Italy. More.
	Tondo Taddei. 1503-1504. Low relief, marble. Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK.
	Virgin and Child. c.1504. Marble. Onze Lieve-Vrouw, Bruges, Belgium.
	Aristotile da Sangallo. The Battle of Cascina, copy after Michelangelo, central section of the cartoon. c.1542. Oil on panel. Holkham Hall, Norfolk, UK.
	Doni Tondo - The Holy Family with St. John the Baptist. c.1504-1506. Oil on panel. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy. More.
The Sistine Chapel.More.
	The interior of the Sistine Chapel showing the ceiling fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. More.
	Partial view of the the frescoes in the Sisine Chapel. 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican.
	The Separation of Light and Darkness. 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. More.
	The Creation of the Sun and Moon. 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. More.
	The Separation of Land and Water. 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. More.
	The Creation of Adam. 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. More.
	The Creation of Eve. 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. More.
	The Fall of Man and the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden. 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. More.
	The Sacrifice of Noah. 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. More.
	The Flood. 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. More.
	The Flood (detail). 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. More.
	The Flood (detail). 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. More.
	The Drunkenness of Noah. 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. More.
	The Sibyl of Delphi. 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. More.
	The Libyan Sibyl. 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. More.
	The Prophet Jeremiah. 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. More.
	The Prophet Zechariah. 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. More.
	Judith and Holofernes. 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. More.
	The Punishment of Haman. 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. More.
	The Ancestors of Christ: Josias, Jechonias and Salathiel. 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican.
	The Ancestors of Christ: Jesse, David and Solomon. 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican.
	Ignudi. 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican.