Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or more commonly known by his first name Michelangelo (1475 – 1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Considered by many the greatest artist of his lifetime, and by some the greatest artist of all time, his artistic versatility was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival, the fellow Florentine and client of the Medici, Leonardo da Vinci.
A number of Michelangelo's works of painting, sculpture and architecture rank among the most famous in existence. His output in these fields was prodigious; given the sheer volume of surviving correspondence, sketches and reminiscences, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century. He sculpted two of his best-known works, the Pietà and David, before the age of thirty. Despite holding a low opinion of painting, he also 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 74, he succeeded Antonio da Sangallo the Younger as the architect of St. Peter's Basilica. He 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. In fact, two 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 often admired his terribilità—his ability to instil a sense of awe. Attempts by subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo's impassioned, highly personal style resulted in Mannerism, the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance.
A number of Michelangelo's works of painting, sculpture and architecture rank among the most famous in existence. His output in these fields was prodigious; given the sheer volume of surviving correspondence, sketches and reminiscences, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century. He sculpted two of his best-known works, the Pietà and David, before the age of thirty. Despite holding a low opinion of painting, he also 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 74, he succeeded Antonio da Sangallo the Younger as the architect of St. Peter's Basilica. He 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. In fact, two 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 often admired his terribilità—his ability to instil a sense of awe. Attempts by subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo's impassioned, highly personal style resulted in Mannerism, the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance.
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| 1490-92, The Madonna of the Stairs |
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| 1492, Battle of the Centaurs |
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| 1494-95, Angel |
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| 1496-97, Bacchus |
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| 1498-99, Pietà, (St Peter's Basilica) |
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| 1500, Entombment |
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| 1501-04, Standing Male Nude Seen From Behind |
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| 1503-06, The holy Family |
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| Statue of David, completed in 1504 |
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| 1504, Male Nude Seen From the Back |
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| 1504, The Battle of Cascina |
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| 1504, The Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist (or The Doni tondo) |
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| 1505, The Madonna of Bruges holding Jesus Christ |
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| 1505-45, Second design for wall tomb for Pope Julius II |
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| 1508-09 The Deluge (detail) |
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| 1508-09, Deluge |
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| 1508-12, ceiling of the Sistine Chapel |
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| 1508-12, Frescoes above the entrance wall |
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| 1509, Drunkenness of Noah |
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| 1509, Ignudo fresco on the Sistine Chapel ceiling |
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| 1509, Sacrifice of Noah |
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| 1509, The Delphic Sibyl |
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| 1509, The Erythraean Sibyl (detail) |
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| 1509, The Erythraean Sibyl |
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| 1509, The First day of Creation |
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| 1509-10, Creation of Eve |
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| 1510, The Creation of Adam |
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| 1510, The Cumaean Sibyl |
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| 1511, Creation of the sun moon and plants |
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| 1511, Ignudo at Sistine Chapel |
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| 1511, Prophet Ezekiel |
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| 1511, Separation of the Earth from the Waters |
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| 1511 Studies for The Libyan Sibyl |
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| 1511, Study of a seated young man and two studies of the right arm |
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| 1511, The Libyan Sibyl |
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| 1511, The Prophet Jeremiah |
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| 1511-12, lunetta, Jacob - Joseph |
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| 1511-12, Rehoboam, Abijah |
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| 1513, Dying slave, (Louvre) |
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| 1513-15 Moses for the tomb of Pope Julius II |
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| 1516, Satyr's Head |
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| 1520-25, Madonna and Child |
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| 1524-30, Tomb of Lorenzo de "Medici" (detail) |
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| 1525-30, Unfinished drawing or a Madonna and Child |
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| 1525-30, victory |
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| 1530, Leda and the Swan |
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| 1530-36, Pieta |
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| 1530, Study Of Three Male Figures |
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| 1532, The risen Christ |
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| 1533, Half-Length Figure of Cleopatra (recto) |
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| 1533, The Dream of Human Life |
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| 1533, Tityus |
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| 1534-36, Study of a Male Nude, Separate Study of his Head (recto) |
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| 1534-41, The Last Judgement |
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| 1537-41, Buonarroti Last Judgment Fresco |
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| 1537-41, Last Judgment (detail) |
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| 1540, The Pietà of Vittoria Colonna |
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| 1541, Crucified Christ |
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| 1542-45, The Conversion of Saul |
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| 1546-50, The Crucifixion of St. Peter |
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| Tomb of Lorenzo Duke of Urbino with the statues Dawn and Dusk |
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