Research Paper On Michelangelo

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance,” –Aristotle Good art transcends time. Through imagination and skill, the visual arts lure a selected audience into different minds and creative worlds, providing a larger context for humanity, urging them present and historical issues. Art holds clues to life in the past: by decoding a work’s symbolism, color, and material, we can better understand the community in which it was produced—albeit crucial moments or ideas of a certain culture or era. Furthermore, comparing artwork provides a well-rounded perspective for looking at events, situations, and people. In analyzing past artwork, we rewind time and experience it on a personal level. Michelangelo, a revolutionary sculptor, painter, and architect exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of western art, offering insight into the political, economic, social, and religious situations of the late fifteenth to mid-sixteenth century Renaissance.

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, born March 6, 1475 in Caprese, Italy, was raised in a family who previously belonged to a minor nobility in Florence, but lost its patrimony. At a young age, Michelangelo demonstrated interest, and promise, in the arts, preferring to copy church paintings or seek the company of painters—like Domenico Ghirlandaio—and sculptors—like Bertoldo di Giovanni, rather than renowned intellectuals. In 1490, a period of artistic flourishing