... mine! /With chiselled touch /The stone unhewn and cold /Becomes a living mould. /the more the marble wastes, /the more the statue grows" (Bartlett). By looking at this quote pulled from a sonnet written by Michelangelo Buonarroti, it is plain to see that he was a sculptor, but only a sculptor he was not. The pictures in his painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling say ... a million more words than a sonnet. In 1508, 33 year old Michelangelo was commissioned by Pope Julius II to repaint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The Pope wanted him to stop his work on a tomb ... ...

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... throughout Italian Renaissance. Sandro Botticelli, a leading painter in Florence and favorite of the Medici family, also used decorative and colorful paintings. In his work, Botticelli presented several religious and pagan motifs and allowed the clear establishment of the elegant images, but keeping the level of chiaroscuro to its minimum. His most famous and recognized work, however, the Birth of Venus uses ... . Then other artists such as Bellini indicated the new ideas of secularism through many landscapes, while other artists such as Francesca and Alberti devised new techniques to ex...

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... philosophy. The humanists strongly believed that education could help people to improve themselves. Humanism also inspired literature to become more universal. Many authors were discovered. Also, a form of poetry, called a sonnet, was developed. The humanists were very important to the Renaissance, without their teachings much would have been left undiscovered. The city stated of Florence, Rome and Venice were also important ... ...

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... in Montorio, Rome appear a more solid structure (Blunt 26, 28, 34). According to Michael Baxandall in Painting in the 20th Century, the Mannerist architects such as Giulio Romano employed classical motifs in an odd and strange way. Romano preferred to use vague relationships and strange ornamentation. Such painters as Pontormo, Parmigiannio, and Bronzino responded to the conflicts and dislocations of their ... ...

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