Essays on Michelangelo

The Last Judgment - Background The Last Judgment, done between 1536 and 1541 by Michelangelo, covers the whole altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. The time of the painting came shortly after two significant happenings in the history of Catholicism. One was the surge of the Protestant Reformation,...

The classical phase and precisely the High Renaissance contains the Italian pieces of art done from the 1490’s to a better part of the 16th century. The greatest artists of the phase included Michelangelo, Raphael and many others whose works are famous and have been well-maintained over the years. This...

Over time, the arts have demonstrated their reliability as a means of disseminating knowledge to the general public. From the time of Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Pablo Picasso, art has continued to address different social issues. Through potent representations that aid in the construction of views that frequently change...

Many people consider Michelangelo to be the best artist in history (King, 2014). Michelangelo's artistic talent revealed itself in his early childhood, much to his family's dismay, when he was born in 1475. His sketches would often result in retribution from his aunt, who wished to persuade the youth to...