He was a true Renaissance man who lived a long emotional life. ... This delayed the beginning of the work, since Michelangelo declared oil-painting to be an "effeminate art" and insisted on painting "al fresco," as he had done with the ceiling. ... 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. ... (Croix, Tansey, and Kirkpatrick 567) Michelangelo's "The Last Judgment" is a splendid masterpiece of the High Renaissance. ... His painting gives a greater understandin...

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He played a major role in the Renaissance, and help to make great advances through his works. ... A gifted artist and poet, he helped set the pace of the Renaissance. ... Beginning with God Separating Light from Darkness and including the creation of Adam, the Creation of Eve, the Temptation and Fall of Adam and Eve, and the Flood. ... The Largest fresco of the Renaissance, it depicts Judgment day. ... Michelangelo died at the end of the Renaissance era when art was moving into the Baroque era. ...

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Raphael was a painter of the Italian High Renaissance. ... Urbino, Raphael's hometown, had become a center of culture during the Renaissance. . ... Even at the beginning of the 16th century, when he was just turning 17 years old, was already displaying an extraordinary talent in the work he was painting. ...

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Raphael had such extraordinary talent right from the beginning and was an innate absorber of influences. ... He learned by studying the works of the masters, and thus developed the methods of representing the play of light and shade on a figure (chiaroscuro), anatomy and dramatic action most frequently associated with the high Renaissance. ...

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