Vasari michelangelo buonarroti biography
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
The Italian biographer, Giorgio Vasari called Michelangelo the pinnacle of all artistic achievement since the beginning of the Renaissance.
Vasari michelangelo buonarroti biography
Vasari was an astute follower of Michelangelo, publishing a biography on the artist, as well as including him in his classic work, The Lives of the Artists, in which Vasari coined the term Renaissance for the era. While best remembered for painting, such as his frescos in the Sistine Chapel, and sculpture, such as his Statue of David, Michelangelo was a near-perfect archetype of the Renaissance man as an architect, poet and engineer as well.
Born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, in the village of Caprese in Tuscany, his earliest training was under Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449 – 1494), a Florentine painter, and with the sculptor, Bertoldo di Giovanni (1435 – 1491), who was a follower of Donatello (1386 – 1466).
This eventually led Michelangelo to the influential court of Lorenzo de’Medici (1449 – 1492), grand pa