short biography

Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti, b. 1475, Caprese; d. 1564, Rome) was one of the most important artists of the Renaissance. He studied with Domenico Ghirlandaio and was guest of the Medici in Florence, from whom he repeatedly received orders for paintings. From 1505 he also carried out numerous papal orders in Rome. In 1534 he painted the interior of the Medici Chapel in Florence. In 1541 he finished the fresco "The Last Judgment" in the Sistine Chapel in Rome and in 1547 he was the Chief Architect of the St. Peter Dome.

High Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque pretender, sculpture, painting, architecture, poetry

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collection/s

Albertina, Wien Ashmolean Museum, Oxford British Museum, London Cappella Sistina, Rome Casa Buonarroti, Florenz Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York Courtauld, London Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Louvre Paris Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museo di San Marco, Florence National Gallery, London Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Royal Academy of Arts, London Smithsonian Institution, Washington Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg / RUS Teylers Museum, Haarlem Uffizi Galleries, Florence
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