Biography of Leonardo Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico di Leonardo di Buonarroti Simoni; March 6, Kaprezu - February 18, Rome - Italian sculptor, artist, architect, poet, thinker. One of the largest masters of the Renaissance and Early Baroque.

Michelangelo was born on March 6 in the Tuscan town of Castles north of Scratzo, in the family of the impoverished Florentine nobleman Lodovico Buonarroti, a city adviser. Some biographical books say that the ancestor of Michelangelo was a kind of Messer Simona, who came from the family of the count di disc. Documents, however, do not confirm this origin. They do not even confirm the existence of pancakes with such a name, but the father of Michelangelo apparently believed this, and later, when Michelangelo already became famous, the count's surname readily recognized the relationship with him.

Alessandro-Di-Kanoss in the year in a letter called him a respected relative, invited him to visit him and asked him to consider his house to be his own. Charles Cleman, the author of several books about Michelangelo, is sure that the origin of Buonarroti from the count Di Canoss as a whole accepted during the time of Michelangelo seems more than dubious today. In his opinion, Buonarroti settled in Florence for a very long time and at different times were in the service of the government of the republic at fairly important posts.

Lodovico Buonarroti was not rich, and the income from his small possession in the village was barely enough to support many children. In this regard, he was forced to give Michelangelo Cormilic, the wife of Skarpelino from the same village called Settinano. There, brought up by a married couple Topolino, the boy learned to knead the clay and possess a cutter before read and write. In the year, Father Michelangelo resigned himself to his son’s inclinations and placed him with a student in the workshop of the artist Domenico Girlandayo.

He studied there for one year. A year later, Michelangelo goes to the sculptor Bertoldo Diovanni, who existed under the patronage of Lorenzo de Medici, the actual owner of Florence. Medici recognizes the talent of Michelangelo and patronizes him. From approximately to a year, Michelangelo is located at the court of the Medici. Perhaps at this time the Madonna near the stairs and the “battle of centaurs” were created.

After the death of Medici, Michelangelo returns home in the year. In the years, Michelangelo lives in Bologna, creates sculptures for the arch of St. Dominic. In the year, he returns to Florence, where the Dominican preacher of Girolamo Savonarola runs, and creates the sculptures of “St. Johannes” and “Sleeping Cupid”. In the year, Cardinal Rafael Riario buys the marble "Cupid" Michelangelo and invites the artist to work in Rome, where Michelangelo arrives on June 25.

In years, he creates “Bacchan” and “Roman Pieta”. In the year, Michelangelo returns to Florence. Work by order: sculptures for the "Altar Piccolomin" and "David". The work was completed by order: “Twelve Apostles”, the beginning of work on “Holy Matthew” for the Florentine Cathedral. Work on David ends in the year; Michelangelo receives an order to create a “battle of kashin”. In the year, the sculptor was called by the Roman Pope Julius II to Rome; He ordered him a tomb.

An eight -month stay in Carrara follows, the choice of the necessary for the work of marble. In the years, work on the tomb is carried out with interruptions, for which the sculptures “Moses”, “connected slave”, “dying slave”, “lia” are created. In April, the year is again a return to Florence, in November, reconciliation with Julius II in Bologna follows. Michelangelo receives an order for the bronze statue of Julia II, on which it was working later than was destroyed.

In February, Michelangelo returns to Florence again. In May, at the request of Julia II, he goes to Rome for the scripture of the ceiling frescoes in the Sistine Chapel; He works on them until October. In the year, Julius II is dying. Giovanni Medici becomes Pope Leo H. Michelangelo enters into a new contract to work on the tomb of Julia II. In the year, the sculptor receives an order for "Christ with the Cross" and the chapel of Pope Leo X in Engelsburg.

In July, Michelangelo returns to Florence again. He receives an order for the creation of the facade of the Medici Church San Lorenzo in Florence, and he signs the third agreement on the creation of the tomb Julia II. In the years, numerous marble trips for the facade of San Lorenzo to Carrara and Pietrazantu took place. In the years, the sculptor is working on the architectural and sculptural complex of the Medici Chapel in Florence, and also designs and builds Laurencin's library.

In the year, the artist was entrusted to the most significant architectural orders in his life. For Pope Paul III, he graduated from Palazzo Farneze the third floor of the courtyard facade and cornice and designed for him the new decoration of the Capitol, the material embodiment of which continued, however, long enough. But, of course, the most important order that prevented him from returning to his native Florence until his death was his appointment for Michelangelo as the chief architect of St.

Peter's Cathedral.Having made sure of such confidence in him and the faith in him from the pope, Michelangelo, in order to show his goodwill, wished to be announced in the decree that he was serving in construction out of love for God and without any reward. Michelangelo died on February 18 in Rome. Buried in the church of Santa-Croce in Florence. Before his death, he dictated a will with all his characteristic laconicity: "I give my soul to God, the body to the earth, property to the relatives." According to Bernini, the great Michelangelo before his death said that he regrets that he was dying precisely when he only learned to read the syllables in his profession.