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Michael Angelo

Michael Angelo

1475 - 1564

The great Renaissance artist Michael Angelo is a prominent figure in the history of the visual arts. He was an oil painter, sculptor and architect. He left us with a variety of international masterpieces that influenced viewers for more than four centuries. His works influenced the development of painting and sculpture in Europe.

Michael Angelo was born in 1574 in the city of Carris in Italy, about forty miles from Florence, and his talents appeared at an early age. He met the famous painter Ghirlandaio in Florence, and when he was fifteen, the ruler of Florence, Lorenzo the Great, took him to live among his family members in his palace and became his protector and patron. He spent most of his days in Rome and Florence, and the popes and secular rulers alike commissioned him to design works of art. He died in Rome shortly before his eighty-ninth birthday. And he never married.

Although Mikael Angelo did not have the total brilliance that his older contemporary Leonardo da Vinci enjoyed, the multiplicity of artistic aspects in Mikael Angelo's life made the author prefer him over Leonardo da Vinci, as he was the only artist who reached the highest peaks of achievements in two separate fields of activity. Al-Bishri, as an oil painter, is classified at the summit or near the summit due to the quality of his immortal works and the impact and character he left on later artists. The huge groups of frescoes on the walls and ceilings that he photographed in the Sistine Chapel in Rome are rightly considered one of the greatest artistic achievements of all time. However, Mikael Angelo considered himself a sculptor and many critics consider him the greatest sculptor of all time. His statues represent David and Moses. For example, the famous Pieta statue in the Vatican. One of the unparalleled artistic masterpieces.

Michael Angelo is also considered a talented architect and among his achievements in architecture is his design of the famous Medici Church in Florence, and he remained for several years the main architect in the design of “Peter’s in Rome.”

Mikael Angelo was also a gentle poet, as he composed several poems during his life, of which we have reached about 300 poems. (Poems) which he composed only after his death and they show that he was a talented poet.