This was of great concern to Michelangelo Merisi who was known as an artist by the name of Caravaggio, the northern Italian town of his birth. He invented an innovative new technique, called tenebrism that was an exaggeration of chiaroscuro, a technique used by many artists of the time using slight variations of light and dark. ... They are separated by the space between them and their clothing, but also connected by Christ's hand as he points at Matthew in the same manner as Adam's hand in Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam" in the Sistine Chapel. ... Both artists created masterf...

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Much of this money went to sponsor the great architects and artists of the age. ... We know that Pope Julius II commissioned his own tomb, but it is unclear if Michelangelo was paid the full amount he was owed, since after the Popes death the tomb became significantly smaller. ... By the High Renaissance, led by Michelangelo's tombs, the effigies are often sitting up, and later may stand. ... With the rise of this phenomenon, tomb making for painters, sculptors, and architects rose, showing a new interest in the cult of the artist. Artists who achieved earthly fame were honored with indiv...

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Traditional styles and topics kept on dominaing the time of the High Renaissance in the work of the early-sixteenth-century experts Leonardo da Vinci (1452 "1519), Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 "1564), and Raphael Sanzio (1483 "1520). ...

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