Many artists convey the feelings of the many and not the few in their art. ... Michelangelo's David was one of many examples of the exaltation of man. ... The first artist to use the more realistic look to the art was Giotto. ... An even better example of this shift in views from the medieval art to the Renaissance art was Michelangelo's sculpture of David. ... The great artists Donatello, Giotto, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Masaccio all gave a perspective that could not be seen if in written form. ...

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Another great artist of this time was Michelangelo Buonarroti. ... His teacher was Domencio Ghirlandio, a very famous artist. ... Michelangelo used this technique while painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Although Michelangelo was a good and prolific painter, he enjoyed sculpting the most. ... Michelangelo, as well as Leonardo, were both geniuses in art and paved the way for other great artist of this time period and time periods to come. ...

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These new aesthetics found expression in the works of such Italian artists as Leonardo da Vinci, S. Botticelli, Raphael, Titian, and Michelangelo. ... Among the most famous figures of this type were the architect, painter, organist, and writer Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo. The great artists of the period made several notable contributions to literature. The sonnets of Michelangelo are impassioned expressions of inner feelings and religious conviction. ...

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He was the first artist to make landscape as the main subject of the painting. ... Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born on March 6, 1475, Caprese Michelangelo, Italy and died on February 18, 1564, Rome, Italy. ... Rubens was one of the most famous and successful European artists of the 17th century, known for works of, The Descent from the Cross, Wolf and Fox Hunt and The Garden of Love. ... He would be regarded as the greatest artist in the Northern Renaissance. ...

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Socially, artists were describing the growing number of individuals in society, rather than sections of a certain class. ... Michelangelo and his great Sistine Chapel show humanity "invading heaven itself." ...

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When his rule set in at 1469 he continued to use his wealth to support artists and many others including philosophers. ... Sculptors such as Michelangelo Buonarroti moved to Rome and sculpted for the Pope. ...

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INTRODUCTION My essay shall be based upon two magnificent artists who used the human form in most of their art pieces; these artists have become quite exquisite in their painting styles and life. ... Leonardo Da Vinci The second artist is more from a modern timeframe, before he died he had created a stunning 22,000 pieces of artworks in many different types of mediums. ... After some time of painting in verrochio's workshop, it was clear that Leonardo had developed into an exceptionally gifted artist. In 1478, Leonardo finally graduated from verrochio's workshop and beca...

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During the Renaissance many artists emerged, that are still renowned to this day. ... Many of the architects as well as the artists of the Renaissance era incorporated humanistic characteristics to their work. The Renaissance has left our modern society great works of art, and more arguably some of the greatest artists of known history. ... Along with Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael, and Botticelli to name a few one of the most famous Renaissance men was Leonardo da Vinci.... While under the apprenticeship of Verrocchio Leonardo learned all of the skills required to become a professional art...

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The Art changes dramatically putting focus on human interest, needs, and abilities; artist painted their subject more real, and reading and writing because useful in daily life. ... The Sistine Chapel ceiling made by Michelangelo, God is not golden colored. ...

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Seriously, though, they must have had a gym somewhere to have models such as those used as reference for famous sculptures like "David," by Michelangelo. ... Not only is one able to perceive a tangible and recognizable form, they are able to spend years unearthing that figure, carefully and minutely scraping and chiseling away at pounds and pounds of solid stone until the life within the white is entirely realized by the artist, seen by the masses, and left as a standing marker of its time. ... Peter Paul Rubens of the Netherlands (1577-1640) was a monumental painter whose work still...

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