Michelangelo

Biography & Profiles

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) worked for a succession of powerful patrons across Italy, from early Medici supporters in Florence to multiple Popes in Rome. His primary c...

Celebrity Profiles

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born on 6 March 1475 in Caprese (now Caprese Michelangelo), Republic of Florence.

art-history

The name most commonly associated with the Sistine Chapel’s iconic imagery is The Creation of Adam . This is the title of the central panel within the broader ceiling cycle th...

Celebrity Profiles

Michelangelo Buonarroti was born in Caprese, a small comune in the province of Arezzo, in present-day Tuscany, central Italy. In modern administrative terms, the town is known a...

art-history

The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was painted by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564). This vast fresco cycle, executed between 1508 and 1512, re...

art-history

The Sistine Chapel contains a specific and well documented set of painted works. In brief, there are 9 ceiling panels by Michelangelo depicting scenes from Genesis, plus a large...

art-history

Michelangelo finished painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling in October 1512. The central scenes were completed and unveiled in the summer of that year, with the final touches, inc...

biography

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet whose work epitomizes the High Renaissance and Mannerism. Born in Caprese near Floren...

art-history

The term Michelangelo roof painting commonly refers to the Sistine Chapel ceiling, frescoed between 1508 and 1512. Executed by the Florentine master under papal patronage, the c...

art-history

The Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the most iconic artworks in Western history, and it was commissioned by Pope Julius II. In the early 16th century, the pope sought a painter...