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Michelangelo
Michelangelo (1475-1564), arguably one of the most inspired creators in the history of art and, with the most potent force in the Italian High Renaissance. As a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, he exerted a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent Western ....
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.... years later Michelangelo fled Florence, when the Medici were temporarily expelled. He settled for a time in Bologna, where in 1494 and 1495 he executed several for the Arca (Shrine) di San Domenico in the Church of San Domenico.
First Roman Sojourn
Michelangelo then went to Rome, where he was able to examine many newly unearthed classical statues and ruins. He soon produced his first large-scale sculpture, the over-life-size (1496-98, Bargello, Florence). One of the few works of pagan rather than Christian subject matter made by the ....
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