Vasari michelangelo biography

When Michelangelo was apprenticed into the craft with.
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About a year before his death, Vasari, seeing that Michelangelo was much shaken, prevailed upon the Pope to give orders concerning the care of him, and.

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Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti

June 19, 2024

"Das Leben des Michelangelo", oder: Die Vergöttlichung eines Künstlers.

Vasaris Lebensbeschreibung des Michelagnolo Buonarroti stellt den Kulminationspunkt des Gesamten Vitenwerkes dar. Jegliche künstlerische Entwicklung mündet - nicht ohne Widerspruch- seinem teleologischen Geschichtsverständnis nach in dem Erlöser der Kunst aus ihrem miserablen Zustand vergeblicher Mühen, Michelangelo.
Schon der Geburt Michelangelos verleiht Vasari ein theologisches Moment: um der Welt, die sich vergebens um eine Wiedergeburt der vollendeten Kunst der Antiken nach dem Verfall der Kunst im Mittelalter bemüht, einen Heiland zu senden, schenkt der himmlische Statthalter Gottvater an einem Sonntag, an dem die Sterne gut standen, den göttlichen Michelangelo, seinen Erzengel (nomen est omen). Michelangelo, der im Verlauf seines Lebens unter schweren körperlichen Leiden arbeitete, vollzieht seine ganz eigene Passionsgeschichte.
Über die Kunst selbst zu schreiben, ist kein Platz, allein soll bemerkt werden, dass sie immerzu "göttlich" ist, allenthalben Stau

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Life of Michelangelo

Michelangelo is the greatest example of the artist totally dedicated to his calling, who reached the heights of excellence in sculpture, painting, architecture, and poetry. Above all, he was a devout Catholic who put his talents in the service of the Church and left the world an immortal legacy. Here is the full story of Michelangelo's life and works, set among the wars and intrigues of Renaissance Italy: the sculpting of the David, the Pieta, and the Moses; the painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and the Last Judgment; the building of St. Peter's--and much more. A whole era comes vividly to life in these pages: Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, and Lorenzo the Magnificent; Julius II, the warrior Pope who wanted to be shown with a sword in his hand rather than a book; Paul III, who wanted Michelangelo's services for thirty years and would let nothing stop him; Cosimo de' Medici, the Grand Duke of Florence, and many more. There are many modern biographies of Michelangelo, but all of them use this Life as a major source. And no wonder: Giorgio Vasari, t

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Excerpt from Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists:

Michelangelo BUONAROTTI of Florence, Painter, Sculptor and Architect
(1475-1564)

For primary documents concerning Michelangelo's career, samples of Michelangelo's poems, and Vasari's biography of Michelangelo see the pdf on the Columbia University Art and Humanities site.

WHILE industrious and choice spirits, aided by the light afforded by Giotto and his followers, strove to show the world the talent with which their happy stars and well-balanced humours had endowed them, and endeavoured to attain to the height of knowledge by imitating the greatness of Nature in all things, the great Ruler of Heaven looked down and, seeing these vain and fruitless efforts and the presumptuous opinion of man more removed from truth than light from darkness, resolved, in order to rid him of these errors, to send to earth a genius universal in each art, to show single-handed the perfection of line and shadow, and who should give relief to his paintings, show a sound judgment in sculpture,