Michelangelo

[edit] The Mahalo Top 7

1. Wikipedia: Michelangelo
2. Michelangelo.com: Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475 - 1564
3. Gallery Euroweb: Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarotti Simoni - Biography
4. CGFA: Michelangelo Biography and Works
5. The History of Art: Michelangelo - The High Renaissance
6. Michelangelo: Artist and Aristocrat
7. Answers.com: Michelangelo: Biography
8. All-Art.org: History of Art: Renaissance - Donatello

[edit] Michelangelo Background and Profiles

• Thinkquest: Michelangelo's Life
• Respree.com: Michelangelo Buonarroti Biography
• Artchive.com: Michelangelo (1475-1564)
• Casa Buonarroti Florence Museum

[edit] Michelangelo Statues and Frescos

• Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel - Ceiling - fresco
• The Creation of Adam - fresco
• The Creation of Eve - fresco
• The Last Judgement - fresco
• Moses - statue
• David - statue
• Tomb of Julius - statue
• Tomb of the Medici - statue
• Michelangelo's Pieta - statue

[edit] Michelangelo Images and Media

• YouTube: David by Michelangelo (1:17) 
• YouTube: The Best of Michelangelo (2:59) 
• Vatican Museums: The Sistine Chapel 
• Michelangelo's Ceiling: The Sistine Chapel

[edit] Michelangelo Books and Research

• Project Guttenburg: The Life of Michelangelo ebook
• Ocaiw: Posters by Michelangelo
• Amazon.com: Books and Videos
• ChristianityToday: Larger than Life
• Columbia University: The ultimate art history whodunit - Michelangelo forgery or classical antiquity?

[edit] Michelangelo Blogs and Message Boards

• Victoria & Albert Museum: Michelangelo's David and Queen Victoria
• Michelangelo's Dream: Chapter 6 of Maria Ruvoldt’s book
• Trekearth: Tomb of Michelangelo
• Renaissance Art: Renaissance art history,Italian renaissance art,Renaissance artists,Renaissance art work

[edit] Michelangelo Timeline

• 1475: Born Michelangelo Buonarroti in Caprese, 6 March
• 1487: Became an apprentice to the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio
• 1490-92: (circa) Worked in the Medici household
• 1494-95: Worked in Bologna
• 1495: Returned to Florence, carved St. John the Baptist and the Sleeping Cupid
• 1496-1501: Moved to Rome. Carved the Bacchus and the Rome Pieta
• 1504: Completed the David.
• 1504: Received commission to paint the Battle of Cascina
• 1505: Summoned to Rome by Pope Julius II to create the tomb for the Pope
• 1505: Spent 8 months in the quarries of Carrara selecting marble for the tomb
• 1505-1545: Worked on the tomb of Julius II, Moses, The Rebellious and Dying Slave, Rachel and Leah
• 1508-1512: In Rome painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (completed)*
• 1515-1534: Carved tombs for the Medici family, designed Medici Chapel in Florence
• 1524: Commissioned to design the Laurentian Library at San Lorenzo
• 1536-1541: Painted The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel. Unveiled in 1541.
• 1545-1550: Worked on the Pauline Chapel frescoes.
• 1550: Giorgio Vasari's "Live of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects" published
• 1555: Michelangelo completed the Florentine Pieta
• 1564: Michelangelo worked on the Rondanini Pieta - now in Milan.
• 1564: February 18 - dies at age 89.

[edit] Michelangelo Satire and Humor

• Off The Mark: Cartoon
• Google Images: Cartoon

Related Searches

<redirect></redirect>