Renaissance Art The Renaissance was "A revival or rebirth of cultural awareness and learning that took place during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, particularly in Italy,"" according to Art In Focus. ... During the Renaissance, art was a branch of knowledge. ... He might have done this to be able to paint the human head in proper proportion, and more life like. ... He recorded mentally images he saw in ever day life. ... The Renaissance was period of time when art was very important. ...

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Michelangelo lived in Florence, which at the time, was the flowering city of the Renaissance. ... Michelangelo portrayed life as it is. ... The largest fresco of the Renaissance, it depicts Judgment Day. ... Not only did the Renaissance produce artistic talent, but also produced a new breed of thinkers into society. ... Michelangelo was arguably one of the most inspired creators in the history of art and the most potent force in the Italian Renaissance. ...

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He was a true Renaissance man who lived a long emotional life. ... They also have the two books, the Book of Life and the Book of Judgment. ... The torment that is so overwhelming in Michelangelo's Renaissance version of "The Last Judgment" is not depicted at all in Cavallini's Proto-Renaissance painting. ... Michelangelo's painting is also much more life-like than Cavallini's. ... The torment and horror is also quite indicative of the hardships which Michelangelo felt during this time in his life. ...

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Sculpture was Michelangelo's main goal and the love of his life. ... Michelangelo embodied many characteristic qualities of the Renaissance. ... Michelangelo portrayed life as it is, even with it's troubles. ... The largest fresco of the Renaissance, it depicts Judgment Day. ... He soon produced his first large-scale sculpture, the over-life-size Bacchus (1496-98, Bargello, Florence). ...

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Sculpture was Michelangelo's main goal and the love of his life. ... Michelangelo embodied many characteristic qualities of the Renaissance. ... Michelangelo portrayed life as it is, even with it's troubles. ... The largest fresco of the Renaissance, it depicts Judgment Day. ... He soon produced his first large-scale sculpture, the over-life-size Bacchus (1496-98, Bargello, Florence). ...

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Sculpture was Michelangelo's main goal and the love of his life. ... Michelangelo embodied many characteristic qualities of the Renaissance. ... Michelangelo portrayed life as it is, even with it's troubles. ... The largest fresco of the Renaissance, it depicts Judgment Day. ... He soon produced his first large-scale sculpture, the over-life-size Bacchus (1496-98, Bargello, Florence). ...

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The greatest artist of the human figure was also one of Renaissance Italy's greatest poets. ... Like other Renaissance poets, Michelangelo wrote primarily of love. ... We are here face to face not only with pain as a condition of redemption, but rather with absolute beauty as one of its consequences.  He soon produced his first large-scale sculpture The complete artist, he expressed the ideas of the Renaissance, passing from "realism" to the "beautiful" as the quintessence and glorification of the capacity of man. ... Interesting Facts: He was a famous artist an...

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Michelangelo is often referred to as the most famous artist of western civilization, and a supreme Renaissance artist. ... Michelangelo embodied many characteristic qualities of the Renaissance. ... Throughout his life, Michelangelo displayed imaginable talent. ... Michelangelo embodied many characteristic qualities of the Renaissance. ... Michelangelo expressed his own ideas and feelings, portraying life as it is. ...

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One of the greatest artists of the Italian renaissance was Michelangelo. ... After finishing the ceiling he began carving again, creating several great statues, one of which was Moses who looked so fierce and powerful and full of life it was thought he could almost speak. ...

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After the death of Lorenzo de" Medici, Michelangelo's generous patron and the father figure in his life, Florence was divided as many political parties fought for command. ... The Last Judgment, which Michelangelo finished in 1541 was the largest fresco of the Renaissance, depicting Judgment. ... Although he was also given another painting commission, the decoration of the Pauline Chapel in the 1540s, his main energies were directed toward architecture during this phase of his life. ... And so ended the life of a genious, a master sculpter, architect, and painter, one capable of m...

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