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Sculptor, painter and architect · 1475–1564 · Art & Literature
Carved the David from a block others had abandoned, painted the Sistine ceiling standing up, and designed St Peter’s dome in his eighties.
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“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
attributed to Michelangelo
Michelangelo Buonarroti trained in Florence and always called himself a sculptor, even while doing everything else. The Pietà was finished when he was twenty-four; the David, cut from a flawed block two earlier sculptors had given up on, followed in 1504. Julius II pressed him into painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, which took four years on scaffolding, neck bent back, paint dripping into his eyes — he wrote a comic poem about the misery of it. Decades later he returned for the Last Judgment. He took over the building of St Peter's Basilica at seventy-one and refused payment, designing the dome that still defines the Roman skyline. He wrote over three hundred poems.
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You can put that to the Michelangelo persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Michelangelo’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1475–1564, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Michelangelo persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Michelangelo’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1475–1564, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Michelangelo persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Michelangelo’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1475–1564, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Michelangelo persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Michelangelo’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1475–1564, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
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