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Michelangelo
Title: Michelangelo
Category: History
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Michelangelo
The complete artist, he expressed the ideas of the Renaissance, passing from "realism" to the "beautiful" as the embodiment and glorification of the capacity of man.
After completing his humanistic studies, he started work in Ghirlandaio's workshop in Florence while still only a youth (1488); his interest in ancient sculpture soon led him to frequent the garden at Saint Mark, where the Medici family had already put together a sizeable collection of classical statuary. His first …showed first 75 words of 691 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 691 total…Peter's in Rome. His last sculptures, carried out between 1547 and 1555, developed the subject of the Pietà: the Palestrina Pietà (Academy), the Pietà in the Duomo di Firenze (Museum of Opera del Duomo), the Pietà Rondanini (Milan, Castello Sforzesco). Although when he died - after having been almost forced to be the artist of several Popes - his mortal remains were claimed by the city of Florence, they were eventually removed from Rome by his nephew in secret.
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