Jun 23 2010
Michelangelo
Michelangelo Buonarroti was born on 6th March 1475 in Italy. When he was a baby his mother became Ill, so he was looked after by a Stonemason’s family. Later he often told people that this was why he was so good at Sculptures out of stone.
Michelangelo trained as a painter but he loved Sculpter best. He studied sculpture at Lorenzo de Medici’s fabulous palace in Florence.
In 1506 the Pope asked Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. The huge, Curved ceiling is about the size of a tenis court and he had to work on scaffolding 15 metres high. He held his brushes above his head. It took him 4 years to finish the Ceiling and by the end his neck was so stiff that he could only read things by arching his head back.
Michelangelo used what the fresco technique when he painted walls and ceiling. Fresco means fresh in Italian. The artist paints directly onto the wet plaster. As the plaster dried, the paint bonds to it. He had to work quickly to get the right results. The main panels of the seiling show scenes from the book of Genesis. Also shown are portraits of prophets and Sibyls who foretold the coming of the messiah. There are also pictures showing Jesus’ ancestors and stories around are smaller figures of cherubs and nudes. Altogether there are more than 300 painted figures on the ceiling.
Image taken from Wikipedia
Amazing facts
- Michelangelo was left – handed.
- Michelangelo was a poet as well as an artist. He wrote one poem about how painful it was working on the Sistine Chapel.
- Michelangelo didn’t care about his appearance and wore cheap. boots without socks. While he worked on the Sistine Chapel he wore the same boots for months not even taking them off when he went to sleep!
wow keava a lot of writing were did you get all of that from my favoriot part was were you said that he cept his shoes on when he went to bed and when he said that he couldn`t bend his neck after he had finished panting the seling.keep it up keava
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I wish I was a painter because you could e very rich.