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Michelangelo   /mˌaɪkəlˈændʒəlˌoʊ/  /mˌɪkəlˈændʒəlˌoʊ/   Listen
Michelangelo

noun
1.
Florentine sculptor and painter and architect; one of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance (1475-1564).  Synonym: Michelangelo Buonarroti.



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"Michelangelo" Quotes from Famous Books



... creation, followed the discovery of the old treasures, creation in literature and all the arts; culminating particularly in the early sixteenth century in the greatest group of painters whom any country has ever seen, Lionardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo. In Italy, to be sure, the light of the Renaissance had its palpable shadow; in breaking away from the medieval bondage into the unhesitating enjoyment of all pleasure, the humanists too often overleaped all restraints and plunged into wild excess, often into mere sensuality. ...
— A History of English Literature • Robert Huntington Fletcher

... Like Plato, Michelangelo, Sir Isaac Newton and his own Claude Lorraine, he was wedded to his art. But at sixty-five his genius suddenly burst forth afresh, and his work, Mr. Ruskin says, at that time exceeded in daring brilliancy ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 1 of 14 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great • Elbert Hubbard

... reached, the movement broke. Already Botticelli painted Aphrodite, queen of the senses, supreme along with Mary, Queen of Heaven. And Michelangelo suddenly turned back on the whole Christian movement, back to the flesh. The flesh was supreme and god-like, in the oneness of the flesh, in the oneness of our physical being, we are one with God, with the Father. God the Father created man in the ...
— Twilight in Italy • D.H. Lawrence



Words linked to "Michelangelo" :   carver, old master, architect, sculptor, sculpturer, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, designer, Michelangelo Buonarroti, statue maker



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