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Michelangelo Bronze Sculpture on Marble Base Figurine

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Michelangelo Bronze Sculpture on Marble Base Figurine
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni 6 March 1475 - 18 February 1564. Commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci. Michelangelos output in every field during his long life was prodigious. When the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences that survive is also taken into account, he is the bestdocumented artist of the 16th century. Two of his bestknown works, the Piet and David, were sculpted before he tUrned thirty. Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art. The scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. As an architect, Michelangelo pioneered the Mannerist style at the Laurentian Library. At 74 he succeeded Antonio da Sangallo the Younger as the architect of Saint Peters Basilica. Michelangelo transformed the plan, the western end being finished to Michelangelos design, the dome being completed after his death with some modification. In a demonstration of Michelangelos unique standing, he was the first Western artist whose biography was published while he was alive. Two biographies were published of him during his lifetime; one of them, by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that he was the pinnacle of all artistic achievement since the beginning of the Renaissance, a viewpoint that continued to have currency in art history for centuries. In his lifetime he was also often called Il Divino the divine one. One of the qualities most admired by his contemporaries was his terribilit, a sense of aweinspiring grandeur, and it was the attempts of subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelos impassioned and highly personal style that resulted in Mannerism, the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance. The Sculpture was molded by using the lost wax casting method and finished with brown patina tarnish allowing intricate work to come through the precious metal. This is an exquisite threedimensional work of art. Bronze Dimensions with Marble Base: Height 23 X Width 7 inches. Weight: 24 LBS.