Michelangelo
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475–1564, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.
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How to use Michelangelo in a sentence
But the flaws and peccadilloes of Renaissance artists like Michelangelo pale beside the misdeeds of patrons and pontiffs.
“I will soon make you finish it,” the pope declared, and to make his point clear, he struck Michelangelo with a staff.
Michelangelo tricked his patron about the David, but sometimes he was forcibly reminded who paid the bills.
Michelangelo would later claim that his teacher, Ghirlandaio, taught him nothing.
Italian painter Michelangelo Pistoletto is best known for his mirror paintings that serve as the foundation of his oeuvre.
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Opposite to it Michelangelo's David once stood, till it was removed in our own time to the Accademia, where it looks like a cast.
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa | Edward HuttonHe was certainly one of the earliest students of the famous cartoons of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
Wellington was the Barême of war, Napoleon was its Michelangelo, and this true genius was conquered by calculation.
Hislonely men in shirt-sleeves leaning out of windows are as real as his ladies whocome and goTalking of Michelangelo.
Instigations | Ezra PoundThere is a pitiful story told of the jealousy of the old Umbrian master for the growing fame of Michelangelo.
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British Dictionary definitions for Michelangelo
/ (ˌmaɪkəlˈændʒɪˌləʊ) /
full name Michelangelo Buonarroti. 1475–1564, Florentine sculptor, painter, architect, and poet; one of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance. Among his creations are the sculptures of David (1504) and of Moses which was commissioned for the tomb of Julius II, for whom he also painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (1508–12). The Last Judgment (1533–41), also in the Sistine, includes a torturous vision of Hell and a disguised self-portrait. His other works include the design of the Laurentian Library (1523–29) and of the dome of St Peter's, Rome
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Cultural definitions for Michelangelo
[ (meye-kuh-lan-juh-loh, mik-uh-lan-juh-loh) ]
An Italian painter, sculptor, and architect of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Among many achievements in a life of nearly ninety years, Michelangelo sculpted the David and several versions of the Pietà, painted the ceiling and rear wall of the Sistine Chapel, and served as one of the architects of Saint Peter's Basilica, designing its famous dome. He is considered one of the greatest artists of all time.
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