Michelangelo
Born on 6 March 1475 in Caprese
Died on February 18, 1564 in Rome
His family had been small-scale bankers in Florence. But it stopped at his father, he held occasional government positions. There was some hearsay that his father is the descendant of Mathilde of Canossa. It maybe is fake, but Michelangelo believed it. After he bron for a several months. His family moved back to Florence. After few years, his mother died. He moved to live with a stonemason family. When he was still young. His father sent him to learn grammar with the Humanist Francesco da Urbino in Florence, but he was more interesting at painting. He learned art with Domenico Ghirlandaio, a painter, and Bertoldo di Giovanni who was a sculptor. 1490~1492, he went to his father's school and molded his thinking in art.
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Sistine Chapel ceiling
1508~1512
In this painting, it contents many story, the Separation of Light and Darkness, the Creation of the Sun, Moon and Earth, the Separation of Land and Water, the Creation of Adam, the Creation of Eve, the Temptation and Expulsion, the Sacrifice of Noah, the Great Flood and the Drunkenness of Noah. I choose it because give me a mystification at the part of 《The Creation of Adam》. Michelangelo didn't let the hand touch. It gives us a space to imagine.
1 comment:
You chose the most famous painting in the world, and wrote about the space between the fingers--something that has mystified scholars for hundreds of years. Are they withdrawing?
Not bad! Keep it up!
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