Famous Figure of Art (2)

He is one of the greatest artists of all time, a man Whose name has Become synonymous with the word "masterpiece": Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Michelangelo Buonarroti was born on March 6, 1475, at Caprese, in Tuscany, from his father Ludovico di Leonardo di Buonarotto Simoni, and his mother Francesca Neri.
Buonarroti's mother died young, when the child was only six years old. But even before then, Michelangelo's childhood had been grim and lacking in affection. Because of that, his father sent him to the school of a master, Francesco Galeota from Urbino, who in that time taught grammar. While he studied the principles of Latin, Michelangelo made friends with a student, Francesco Granacci six years older than him, who was learning the art of painting in Ghirlandaio's studio and who encouraged Michelangelo to follow his own artistic vocation.

The Statue of David is
one of the most renowned
works of the Renaissance

Michelangelo's father was a man obsessed with preserving what little remained of the Buonarroti fortunes. With few properties and monies remaining Ludovico hoped that with his studies, Michelangelo could become a successful merchant or businessman, thereby preserving the Buonarroti position in society. His father was always mad if he go for learnt art.

Because of his genius in the arts, she has painted on the wall of the church, a statue, and he's underpaid. He worked for many prominent figures such as the pontift. He worked hard to and fro to seek money for his family. in his teenage years, he struggled to support his family.
The high point of Michelangelo's early style is the gigantic marble David, roomates he produced between 1501 and 1504, after returning to Florence.

St. Pieter

Michelangelo's crowning achievement as an architect was his work at St. Peter's Basilica, where he was made chief architect in 1546. The building was being constructed according to Donato Bramante's plan, but Michelangelo ultimately became responsible for the altar end of the building on the exterior and for the final form of its dome.

Michelangelo Buonarroti died, giving himself up to God, on February 18th, 1564, after a slow fever. As Vasari tells us, he made his will in three sentences, in front of his physician and his friends Tommaso Cavalieri and Daniele da Volterra, saying that he left "his soul to God, his body to the earth, and his material possessions to his nearest relations.

Famous Figure of Art (1)

Leonardo da Vinci. I think no one never heard this name, everyone know that he is the master of art.  He was known as a painter, moreover he was a botanist, anatomist, musician, scientist, geologist, and inventor too. Among his work, Mona Lisa is the most famous portrait, which is now kept in Louvre Paris Museum.
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Tuscan hill town of Vinci. He is the son of Ser Piero da Vinci and Caterina. His name means Leonardo, son of Ser Piero from Vinci city.
Da Vinci spent his first 5 years in his mother's house, in the hamlet of Anchiano. Then, in 1457 he lived in the household of his father, in the small city of Vinci.
in 1466, when he was 14 years old, he had learned painting with Andrea del Verrocchio in Firenze. There is news that Verrocchio retiring because Da Vinci is very great painter, and many other talents, exceed him.
In 1481, Da Vinci move to Milan, work for Duke there. His most famous work during in Milan is Sforza Horse, that he was made for 11 years. But, there's not only paint and sculpture, he also transform the streets of rivers and building canals. Then, he work for King Louis XII of France in Milan and to Pope Leo X in Rome.

In his life Leonardo was interested in science. He began studying the birds fly and started designing flying machines. The thinking is captured in the book as much as 7000 pages of memoirs.
In the book there is also a sketch of the study of the human body. In those days, the anatomy of the human body is nothing more than just about anyone else is strictly prohibited due to dissect corpses. With his recklessness steal surgeon opportunity to dissect a dead body, later actions were not uncommon in this era contributed greatly to the world of medicine.

In 1476, Florentine court records show that Da Vinci and 3 young men were charged with sodomy and acquitted. Because of that incident, from 1476 until 1478 there is no record of his work. But, in January 1478, he received his first of two independent commissions. First, he have to paint an altarpiece for the Chapel of St.Bernard in Palazzo Vecchio. And the second, he received on March 1481, that he have to make The Adoration of the Magi for the Monks of San Donato a Scopeto. Then, Da Vinci work for Milan from 1482 until 1499. He was commissioned to paint the Virgin of the Rocks for the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception and The Last Supper for the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie, and this included in one of his masterpiece.
From 1513 until 1516, Da Vinci spent much of his time in the Belvedere in Vatican, Rome, where annother great artist, Raphael and Michaelangelo were both active in that time.
Da Vinci dead on May 2, 1519, when he was 67 years old in Amboise, Touraine. People say "there had never been another man born in the world who knew as much as Leonardo, not so much about painting, sculpture and architecture, as that he was a very great philosopher."

History of Art

Sculpture, rock paintings, and cave paintings have been found at the Paleolithic era around 40.000 years ago. But the precise meaning of that art is often disputed because of what people know is so little about the cultures that produced by them.

The oldest object art in the world is drilled snail shells. It's about 75.000 years ago were discovered in a South African cave.

Many great traditions is foundation in one art from Ancient Egypt, China, India, Mesopotamia, Persia, Ancient Greece, Rome, Inca, Maya, and Olmec. Then, all of that traditions evolve, not as a whole but separately. For example, this period of Greek art saw a veneration of the human physical form and the development of equivalent skills to show musculature, poise, beauty, and anatomically correct proportions or we often call it iconography.

For the next period, in the Western Middle age, much art focused on the expression of Biblical and religious truths, and used styles that showed the higher glory of a heavenly world, such as the use of gold in the background of paintings, or glass in mosaics or windows.

In the East, Islamic's art rejected iconography emphasis on geometric patterns, calligraphy, and architecture. In India and Tibet, their artwork emphasis on paintings sculpture and dance. The artwork of China emphasis on carving, pottery, poetry, calligraphy, music, painting, drama, fiction, etc. Chinese styles is very varies from era to era.