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Michelangelo Buonarroti, (1475-1564)
- The Last Judgement -
Vatican - Rome

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (Italian: March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo (English: ˌmaɪkəl] was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art. Michelangelo's creative abilities and mastery in a range of artistic arenas define him as an archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and elder contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci. Given the sheer volume of surviving correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences, Michelangelo is one of the best-documented artists of the 16th century. He was lauded by contemporary biographers as the most accomplished artist of his era.

Michelangelo achieved fame early. Two of his best-known works, the Pietà and David, were sculpted before the age of 30. Although he did not consider himself a painter, Michelangelo created two of the most influential frescoes in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, and The Last Judgment on its altar wall. His design of the Laurentian Library pioneered Mannerist architecture. At the age of 71, he succeeded Antonio da Sangallo the Younger as the architect of St. Peter's Basilica. Michelangelo transformed the plan so that the Western end was finished to his design, as was the dome, with some modification, after his death.

Michelangelo was the first Western artist whose biography was published while he was alive. Three biographies were published during his lifetime. One of them, by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that Michelangelo's work transcended that of any artist living or dead, and was "supreme in not one art alone but in all three."

In his lifetime, Michelangelo was often called Il Divino ("the divine one"). His contemporaries admired his terribilità—his ability to instill a sense of awe in viewers of his art. Attempts by subsequent artists to imitate the expressive physicality of Michelangelo's style contributed to the rise of Mannerism, a short-lived movement in Western art between the High Renaissance and the Baroque.
Life
Early life, 1475–1488

Michelangelo was born on 6 March 1475 in Caprese, known today as Caprese Michelangelo, a small town situated in Valtiberina, near Arezzo, Tuscany. For several generations, his family had been small-scale bankers in Florence; but the bank failed, and his father, Ludovico di Leonardo Buonarroti Simoni, briefly took a government post in Caprese, where Michelangelo was born. At the time of Michelangelo's birth, his father was the town's judicial administrator and podestà or local administrator of Chiusi della Verna. Michelangelo's mother was Francesca di Neri del Miniato di Siena. The Buonarrotis claimed to descend from the Countess Matilde di Canossa—a claim that remains unproven, but which Michelangelo believed.

Several months after Michelangelo's birth, the family returned to Florence, where he was raised. During his mother's later prolonged illness, and after her death in 1481 (when he was six years old), Michelangelo lived with a nanny and her husband, a stonecutter, in the town of Settignano, where his father owned a marble quarry and a small farm. There he gained his love for marble. As Giorgio Vasari quotes him:

If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures.

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#LifeOnEarth #Love #Water #Banksy #Girl #Balloon #Window #Woman

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@DavidDeutschOxf @ArmandDAngour @grok The British calling him General wasn't a legal fact , it was a dirty legal trick. If they admitted he was Emperor, international law protected him from permanent exile. They stripped his lawful title just to bypass his rights and dump him on St. Helena.

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@DavidDeutschOxf @ArmandDAngour @grok Grok just googled the textbook answer and missed the real legal ... Napoleon abdicated the French throne, yes, but under the Treaty of Fontainebleau 1814 he was legally guaranteed the title of Emperor for life. That international treaty was still fully valid.

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@Conflict_Radar Distraction forces the brain into an emotional live experience, fixing consciousness here and now while the real event happens silently elsewhere.

Those who reconstruct events in retrospect see only the outcome -the emotional depth remains trapped in the diversion.

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Play - Earthquake

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@StephenKing Play Rustic

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How to Slay a Dragon
Mikhail Khodorkovsky

The book – artistic cover variations
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Felsin Pr.115

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@KatzFilms @The305MVP Bottle House

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Water Lilies - 1907 #artbots #monet

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The term “Impressionism” started as an insult.

In 1874, Monet exhibited Impression, Sunrise alongside works by his contemporaries. Critic Louis Leroy mocked the show, calling the paintings “mere impressions.” #artbots #monet

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Jeannette Johnston (Scottish, b.1957, based in France)
"Lavender Fields of Provence," 2025
Oil on canvas
28.7 x 23.6 in