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The Madonna of the Stairs (1490–1492), Michelangelo's earliest known work in marble. As a young boy, Michelangelo was sent to the city of Florence to study grammar under the Humanist Francesco da Urbino. [11] [14] [d] Michelangelo showed no interest in his schooling, preferring to copy paintings from churches and seek the company of other ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Marble height 97 cm Venus and Cupid (in Italian) c. 1491–1492: Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence Marble 43,5x58 cm Gallino Crucifix (in Italian) c. 1495–1497: Bargello Museum, Florence Wood 41,3×39,7 cm Young Saint John the Baptist [5] c. 1495–1497: Sacred Chapel of El Salvador, Úbeda: Marble
The young man who is the victor is beautiful and elegant, while the dominated man is old and bearded, and dressed in the garb of an ancient Roman warrior. The surfaces are treated expressively to enhance the contrast between the two figures: the young polished to perfection, the old rough and incomplete, still retaining the compressed boulder ...
The signature echoes one used by the ancient Greek artists Apelles and Polykleitos. It was the only work he ever signed. Vasari also reports the anecdote that Michelangelo later regretted his outburst of pride and swore never to sign another work of his hands. [12] [13] Fifty years later, Vasari declared the following regarding the Pietà:
The entire ceiling is a fresco, which is an ancient method for painting murals that relies upon a chemical reaction between damp lime plaster and water-based pigments to permanently fuse the work into the wall. [43] Michelangelo had been an apprentice in the workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio, one of the most competent and prolific of Florentine ...
Where traditional compositions generally contrast an ordered, harmonious heavenly world above with the tumultuous events taking place in the earthly zone below, in Michelangelo's conception the arrangement and posing of the figures across the entire painting give an impression of agitation and excitement, [4] and even in the upper parts there is "a profound disturbance, tension and commotion ...
It is best known as the home of Michelangelo's sculpture David. It also has other sculptures by Michelangelo and a large collection of paintings by Florentine artists, mostly from the period 1300–1600 (the Trecento to the Late Renaissance). It is smaller and more specialized than the Uffizi, the main art museum in
Work on the sculpture stopped shortly after Alessandro de' Medici was made duke and Michelangelo left the city. The sculpture then entered the collection of Duke Cosimo I. It was placed in his private quarters along with a "Bacchus" of Baccio Bandinelli, a work of Andrea Sansovino, and an old "Ganymede" that had been restored by Benvenuto Cellini.