At first Michael is lonely and friendless, he then decides to take up and apprenticeship and create works of art just as the Lord yearns to love and creates man. ... Although greatly disappointed about having to leave Ghirlandaio, with whom he had grown attached, Michelangelo was overwhelmed with joy at his entry to his acceptance into Lorenzo's sculpture garden. The master of the garden and Donatello's inheritor, Bertolodo, had recognized the same talent Ghirlandaio had recognized and took an immediate but concealed interest in all his work. Bertolodo considered Michael his one stu...

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Since the family loved art, it is thought that they wanted Sandro Botticelli to create a painting with imagery based on the Venus' garden on Cyprus described by Angelo Poliziano in his poem Stanze per la Giostra. ... It thus appears that the Medici's love for artworks must have driven him to demand the marvelous painting from Sandro in order to satisfy his quest for remarkable artworks. ... It also happens to be borrowed from a poem that had been written for the Modeci and as a result appears to have been a wish for him to satisfy his love for the Ekpharasis literary form of art....

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Funerary art is any work of art forming, or placed in, a repository for the remains of the dead. The term also encompasses cenotaphs, these are empty tombs, tomb-like monuments which do not contain human remains; and communal memorials to the dead, such as war memorials, which may or may not contain...

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