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Data profile

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Some of his painting work

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some of his sculpture work

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some of his architect work

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The Laurentian Library Houses

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Santa Maria Delgli Angeli E Dei Martiri

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St Peter’s Basilica

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The sketch

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The refrences

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Michelangelo Profile Italian Renaissance architect, and poet

sculptor,

painter,

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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michelangelo

NAME Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

BORN March 6, 1475, Caprese, Italy

DIED February 18, 1564 (aged 88), Rome, Italy

MOVEMENT / STYLE Renaissance Mannerism Early Renaissance

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Some of His Paintings Work

Figure (2) https://www.michelangelo.org/works.jsp

Last Judgment - 1541 Entire fresco wall of the altar in the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. It is a depiction of the second coming of Christ and the final and eternal judgment by the Lord of all mankind. It also contains figures from Greek mythology inspired by Christianity, most of these figures are nude to represent the last judgment. (1)

Figure (3) https://www.michelangelo.org/works.jsp

Martyrdom of St Peter - 1512 It represents the victory over pain and suffering when saint peter was captured and crucified during the reign of Norene. Michelangelo demonstrates peter's great willpower and the fear to the women at the front. And between the argument with the roman men in the back. It took 50 years to finish this mural. (1)

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Some of His Sculpture Work

Figure (4)

https://www.michelangelo.org/works.jsp

Figure (5)

https://www.michelangelo.org/works.jsp

Pieta - 1498

David - 1501-1504

It is A single of Carrara marble sculpture of Mary holding the dead Jesus across her lap. Finished his work in less than one year, and the statue was erected in the church of the cardinal's tomb. (1)

One of the most famous sculptures in Florence, Michelangelo was commissioned to create it by art Della Lana. David's victory over goliath is depicted through the sculpture of David in his youth. It is carved from a marble block that came from the Fantiscritti quarry. David was placed in front of palazzo Vecchio. (1)

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https://www.michelangelo.org/works.jsp


Some of His Architect Work The Laurentian Library Houses

Santa Maria Delgli Angeli E Dei Martiri

Santa Maria Delgli Angeli E Dei Martiri

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The Laurentian Library Houses

Figure(7): The Laurentian Library Houses Figure (6): The Laurentian Library Houses plan https://www.michelangelo.org/michelangelo-architect.jsp#prettyPhoto

Location: In Florence Date: in 1520 In 1534 Michelangelo was commissioned by Pope Clement VII to create the library to collect his family's books in the Medicean Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze. Where the Medici family moved from merchants to members of Italy's intelligentsia. Michelangelo planned the library and supervised its construction personally for a decade, but then moved to Rome and took over from him the supervision of Giorgio Vasari and Bartolommeo Ammannati under his plans and instructions. It has an entrance designed as a meditation between the inside and the outside, and it has a very huge in width reading room with walls of columns to give a sense of the austerity of the room, and between the columns, there are plain frames. It was designed strictly to free the spirit of the place to meditation (2)

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Santa Maria Delgli Angeli E Dei Martiri

Figure (8): Santa Maria Delgii Angeli E Dei Martiri plan https://www.qantara-med.org/public/show_document.php?do_id=707&lang=en

Figure (9): Santa Maria Delgii Angeli E Dei Martiri

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_degli_Angeli_e_dei_Martiri

Location: In roma Date: in 1562 Antonio Luduca ordered Michelangelo to design and oversee this church. The baths of Emperor Diocletian were transferred to this church. He did not change the structure of the building and preserve it. The vault and the eight columns have not changed since the eighteenth century and remain in the Baroque style. (3) An evolution in design is the Greek cross, the dominant pavilion, identical chapels located at each end, and the transverse nave effect. The entrance to the church is located inside one of the covered towers, it is simple in design and has a passage with hanging corners. A raised space of the tribune was created 28 meters high, 90.8 meters long and 27 meters wide. Michelangelo was forced to cut Roman columns made of red granite to make the pulpit, but this provided vast cubic spaces at each end of the wing. (4)

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St Peter’s Basilica

Figure (10): St Peter’s Basilica plan

Figure (11): St Peter’s Basilica

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Basilica#Michelangelo's_contribution

Location: In Vatican Date: in 1506 It is the burial site of Saint Peter and is considered one of the most famous works of architecture in the Renaissance and the largest church in the world according to interior measure. It was co-created by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Its location has been a church since the reign of Roman Emperor Constantine the Great in the fourth century AD. Pope Paul III succeeded Michelangelo to oversee the building of the church. When he assumed supervision, there were four huge piers on the construction site that rise behind the nave of the remaining church. Michelangelo obtained the blueprints and relied on them to develop the building. He placed the shape of the building on the Greek cross with a huge dome of his design in the middle. The Dome of St. Peter is considered the highest dome in the world, as it was designed following the plan of the dome of the Pantheon, which was built in Roman ancient. Michelangelo designed the dome and merged the dome of Florence with the dome of the Pantheon. it is oval in shape raised by 16 pairs of Corinthian columns and connected by an arch. Michelangelo died before the church was completed and his plans were executed by his assistant, Jacopo Barrosi da Vignola, with Giorgio Vasari. (5)

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The sketch

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The references (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

https://www.michelangelo.org/works.jsp https://www.michelangelo.org/michelangelo-architect.jsp#prettyPhoto https://www.qantara-med.org/public/show_document.php?do_id=707&lang=en https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_degli_Angeli_e_dei_Martiri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Basilica#Michelangelo's_contribution

Figure (1) https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michelangelo Figure (2) – (5) https://www.michelangelo.org/works.jsp Figure (6) https://www.pinterest.com/pin/325666616795508072/ Figure (7) https://www.michelangelo.org/michelangelo-architect.jsp#prettyPhoto Figure (8), (9) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_degli_Angeli_e_dei_Martiri Figure (10), (11) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Basilica#Michelangelo's_contribution

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