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One of the guardians of the devil-Michelangelo

Michelangelo (1475─1564), full name Michelangelo, Di, Lodovico, Buonarroti Simeone, also translated "Michelangelo", "Michelangelo", "Michelangelo" Genu", "Michelangelo".

Michelangelo was an outstanding sculptor, architect, painter and poet during the Renaissance. Together with Leonardo Daci and Raphael, he was called the "Three Masters of Renaissance Art" and was famous for his "fitness". Even a female body is muscularly drawn.

His sculpture "Statue of David" is world-famous. The four statues "Day", "Night", "Morning" and "Twilight" in front of the Medici tomb are novel in conception. In addition, famous sculptures include "Moses Statue", " Great Slave" etc.

His most famous painting is the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican

Over the next few months, he carved a wooden crucifix (Michelangelo) as a gift to the rector of the Church of Santo Spirito in Florence.

The church allowed Michelangelo to use cadavers from the church hospital for anatomical studies.

From 1493 to 1494.Michelangelo bought a large block of marble and carved it into a slightly larger-than-life statue of Hercules.

The statue was later sent to France.and was lost in the 18th century. In 1494, after a heavy snowfall, Lorenzo Medici's heir, Piero II de' Medici, commissioned Michelangelo to make a sculpture out of snow, and Michelangelo returned to the Medici court.

In the same year, the monk Savonarola rose up, and the Medici family was expelled from Florence.Before the political turmoil ended, Michelangelo left Florence, first to Venice, and then to Bologna.

In Bologna, he was commissioned to complete several small figures in the final part of the sculpture in the Basilica of Santo Domino. In 1494, the political situation in Florence gradually calmed down.

King Charles VIII of France was defeated, and Florence was no longer threatened by the French army.Michelangelo returned to Florence, but Savonarola's "government" did not commission him to create.

Michelangelo then sought commission from the Medici family again.During the six months he spent in Florence, he created two statuettes, one of the infant St. John the Baptist and the other of the sleeping Cupid.

According to Michelangelo's biographer Ascani Condivi, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, the commissioner of the statue of St. John the Baptist, asked Michelangelo to make the Cupid statue old. Like unearthed, so that he could send the sculpture to Rome and sell it as an antiquity, making a lot of extra money.

However, both Lorenzo and Michelangelo were unknowingly fooled by the middleman, who concealed the true selling price of the sculpture, so that more of the sales revenue fell into the middleman's pocket.

The buyer of the sculpture, Cardinal Raphael Ríario, found he had bought a single piece, but was so impressed by the quality of the sculpture that he invited Michelangelo to Rome.

The success of this creation, together with the unfavorable circumstances in Florence, may have been the reasons that prompted Michelangelo to accept the bishop's invitation to go to Rome.

Michelangelo arrived in Rome in 1496, at the age of 21.That same year, he began Cardinal Rafael Riario's work on a slightly larger-than-life-size statue of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine.

However, after the statue was completed, the cardinal refused to accept the work.The statue of Bacchus was then placed in the garden of the banker Jacopo Garry and became one of his collections.

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