Michelangelo

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==== Michelangelo was a man, but he was more than just a man… He was a great sculpturer, artist, and poet who changed the world of art today. He was born in 1475 in Caprese and died in 1564 in Rome. A few weeks after he was born, him and his family moved to Florence where he saw his parents making clay pots, sculptures and practice arts. This is how he started to get a liking of it and when he was 25 years old he moved to a school called Medici Garden. He lived with a man called Bertoldo who died and Michelangelo was moved to Rome to join the Pièta group. This is when his accomplishments started flushing into the world. ==== __ Bibliography __ "**Western sculpture**." __Encyclopædia Britannica__. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. 18 May 2009 <[]>

“Michelangelo.” 03 Feb 2008. BBChistory. 18May 2009. [] "**Michelangelo**." __Encyclopædia Britannica__. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. 18 May 2009 <[]> Michelangelo Project Interview Reporter: Hello and welcome to back in time interviews. I am Larry Queen we have traveled back in time to the year 1504 in the time period called the renaissance. We are here to talk with history famous Italian sculptor Michelangelo, whom is sculpting his new art work, David. Reporter: So Michelangelo what is your opinion about the renaissance? Michelangelo: Well the renaissance is where a lot of discoveries were made. People like me began to open our minds to creativity and art. It was time where people began to think differently, on how things work, why things are. It was a time where science began seem more complicated than people though before. So in my opinion the renaissance really stick to its tile as the rebirth of human knowledge. Reporter: You mention a lot of discoveries were made what were some of them? Michelangelo: Ah that would be many. Art had improved, inventions were made to create different art, help build buildings and help with everyday life. The list could go on for days. Reporter: So a lot of inventions to improve the lives. It is also changing how people think. Right? Michelangelo: correct Reporter: Very interesting. Now do you know where the renaissance started? Michelangelo: I do. The renaissance began in Italy in. Reporter: I see. So is the rest of the world finding about the knowledge of the renaissance? Michelangelo: Well through trade. Art work, inventions, books of the discoveries, plans and education was all traded to people all over the world. Reporter: So traders trade for instance your art work or a article about a scientific experiment. Michelangelo: Exactly. Reporter: Very fascinating. Another thing I want to ask is how is important is the religion to the people in the renaissance? Michelangelo: The religion was always the first think to deal with when you wanted to tell the world the bible was wrong. For example Galileo had to face the church in a trial to prove a fact the church had wrong. The church those days wanted to keep the old ways; the religion was like the law. Reporter: So the church was scared that people would go against the religion. Michelangelo: In a way yes. Reporter: What is daily life for the average people of the renaissance? Michelangelo: It is like living in a new modern world, well it is better than the old medieval times. Children now have very little freedom. They have to behave in the most polite manner. They also had a lot of schooling to go through because well there is more to learn nowadays. The rich people would have paintings of themselves in their house. The wife would just look at the children and maintain the servants work. The husband would go out work as a scientist, business man, crafter or sometimes they are dukes or lords. They would be the most educated and clean of the people. The poor normally worked for the rich, craftsmen or whatever they how to work as. Reporter: Thank you for sharing what you know about the renaissance. Now let’s talk about you. Michelangelo: Certainly, just make it quick, I want to finish the face of David today. Reporter: Very well then, this will only take about 5 minutes. So, when and where were you born and how did you spend you childhood? Michelangelo: I was born in1475 in Capreso where my dad was a governor, just a few weeks after I was born we moved to Florence. In Florence my dad and mother who already had been a sculpturer of years, started to make several statues and sculptures. During the years I lived in the house hold, I started getting a liking to what they did, and I started doing it myself. Reporter: So it was your parents that taught you? Michelangelo: They got me started, but I got professional when I moved to Medici and went to the Artist school name ‘Medici Gardens’ where I was taught by a man named Bertoldo, Bertoldo got so impressed that he invited me to start working at his household with the other Medici children. The Medici children were the best artists from Medici Garden. Reported: Bertoldo was a lot older than you, so what did you do when he died? Michelangelo: The governor moved me and the other Medici children to Rome to a group of the highest class artists in Italy called Pièta. While working with the Pièta, they offered me a contract for me to paint the roof of the Sistine Chapel, and so I did. Reporter: So, what happened when you were done with that? Where did you go, or did you stay? Michelangelo: I stayed in Rome and I started working in a small room of the Sistine Chapel where I made several sculptures of famous people, like Saint David who im still working on. David is going to be about 5 meters tall and is going to stand at the corner of the entrance in the Chapel. Reporter: Five meters!? Wow, that must have taken you a long time! But do you have any other plans for any statues to make after David? Michelangelo: I don’t get to make ideas, I work for Pièta now, so they just tell me what to make and I will make it. But in my free time I may make what ever I desire. At the moment I am making a design for St. Peter’s Basilica. If it is a success we will move the statue of David there. After making St. Peter’s Basilica I might start making a statue that will be named Pièta because they have pushed me beyond the limits of what I thought I knew about sculpturing. The statue of Pièta will be with Mary holding Jesus’s dead body; it is supposed to show a mother protecting her child. Reporter: May that be the reason why the mothers of today treat their children better? Michelangelo: Well, it is said that the governors from France, Italy, Germany and Spain will make a set of rules of that will force parents to take better care of their children once they have seen the design which I’m drawing in the time I don’t do anything else in. So I think it had made parents treat children better. Reporter: Any plans after that? Michelangelo: I think I will start writing more poems, as I will be getting too weak to climb up and down ladders and hitting hammers to build sculptures, so I will be retiring for sculpturing and continuing and improving my poetry. Reporter: Did you know that you made a completely new type of poetry and art through you creative mind? Michelangelo: No, I didn’t but I just got a very good twist to make on David on my mind, so may I go do it before it flies away again? Reporter: Sure, maybe it will make our art world even better, I has been an honor to meet you. Michelangelo: Thank you, now bye bye!

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