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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni [a] (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, [b] [1] was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, [2] and poet of the High Renaissance.
The following is a list of works of painting, sculpture and architecture by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Lost works are included, but not commissions that Michelangelo never made. Michelangelo also left many drawings, sketches, and some works in poetry.
After 1500 colour fell increasingly from fashion; excavated classical sculptures did not have it, though whether they were originally coloured is another question. The influence of Michelangelo, "who abjured surface attractions in order to convey an idea by form alone" was another factor. [58]
The investigations confirmed the attribution to Michelangelo in 2001 and determined that the sculpture was made for the high altar of the Church of Santo Spirito di Firenze in Florence, perhaps as early as 1492 when Michelangelo was a teenager. [8] The crucifix now hangs in the octagonal sacristy of the Basilica of Santa Maria del Santo Spirito.
The fact that there aren’t any actual Michelangelo paintings in the exhibition shouldn’t come as a surprise: there don’t seem to be any from this period bar his large final frescoes.
It was at this time that sculpture was practically freed from the architectural framework, the reliefs were made with the rules of perspective and the characters were shown with dramatic expressions that led to the sensation of great terribilità in the feelings expressed in Michelangelo's sculptures, as in the face of his David. [5]
Head of a Faun is a lost sculpture by Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo, dating from c. 1489.His first known work of sculpture in marble, it was sculpted when he was 15 or 16 as a copy of an antique work with some minor alterations.
Young Slave at the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence Probable bozzetto at the V&A. The Young Slave (Italian: Schiavo giovane) is a marble sculpture of Michelangelo, datable to around 1525–1530 which is conserved in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence.