Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Raphael, Titian, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Donatello, Master splinter and Shredder

Virtually all current biographies of Matilda assert that the child died in its first year of infancy, however genealogies contemporaneous with Michelangelo Buonarroti claimed that Beatrice survived, and Michelangelo himself falsely claimed to be a descendant of Beatrice and, therefore, Matilda.

Portrait of Michelangelo Buonarroti at 72 by Giulio Bonasone, 1546

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni ( 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564 ), commonly known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.

* February 18 – Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian artist, architect and sculptor ( b. 1475 )

* November 1 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti, is exhibited to the public for the first time.

* Michelangelo Buonarroti is made chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica.

* Michelangelo Buonarroti begins work on the fortifications of Florence.

* December – Michelangelo Buonarroti begins work on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

* Michelangelo Buonarroti becomes apprentice to Domenico Ghirlandaio.

* March 6 – Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian painter ( d. 1564 )

The Pietà ( 1498 – 1499 ) is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.

Michelangelo carved ( Michelangelo Buonarroti, Florentine, made this ) on the sash running across Mary's chest.

Michelangelo Buonarroti was commissioned by Pope Julius II in 1508 to repaint the vault, or ceiling, of the Chapel.

The existing design of the Piazza del Campidoglio and the surrounding palazzi was created by Renaissance artist and architect Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1536 – 1546.

The centre stage for the Renaissance would prove to be Italy, where city-states such as Florence erected great structures, including the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, the Fountain of Neptune, and the Laurentian Library which was planned and built by Michelangelo Buonarroti, a famous stonemason of the Renaissance.

Pope Julius II sent Giuliano da Sangallo and Michelangelo Buonarroti, who were working at the Vatican, to examine the discovery.

During this time, Michelangelo Buonarroti painted the Sistine Chapel and carved the famous Pietà, Gianlorenzo Bernini created the massive columns in St. Peter's Basilica, and Leonardo da Vinci painted the Last Supper.

High Renaissance artists include such figures as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, and Raffaello Sanzio.

* Shostakovich, Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti and Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin, with Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin on the Polygram label

The Torment of Saint Anthony ( Michelangelo ) | The Torment of Saint Anthony.

File: Michelangelo Epifania. jpg | Room 90-Michelangelo's Epifania-his only surviving large scale cartoon ( 1550 – 53 )

Heraclitus ( figured by Michelangelo ) sits apart from the other philosophers in Raphael Sanzio | Raphael's School of Athens

File: Cornelis Bos-Leda and the Swan-WGA2486. jpg | Drawing by Cornelis Bos after the lost original by Michelangelo

Michelangelo's Pietà ( Michelangelo ) | Pietà, a depiction of the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Saint Mary | Mary after the Crucifixion, was carved in 1499, when the sculptor was 24 years old.

The David ( Michelangelo ) | Statue of David, completed by Michelangelo in 1504, is one of the most renowned works of the Renaissance.

Michelangelo's Moses ( Michelangelo ) | Moses ( centre ) with Rachel and Leah on his sides, completed in 1515

Michelangelo's The Last Judgment ( Michelangelo ) | The Last Judgment created between 1536 and 1541.

Circa 1598 painting of Maffeo Barberini at age 30 by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio | Caravaggio.

David ( Michelangelo ) | David, by Michelangelo ( Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze # The Accademi Gallery | The Accademia Gallery, Florence ) is an example of high Renaissance art

Michelangelo Moses ( Michelangelo ) | Moses, ( c. 1513 – 1515 ), housed in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome.

Crucifix, sculpture by Michelangelo, Santo Spirito, Florence | Santo Spirito Church, Florence, Italy ( ca.

Image: Michelangelos David. jpg | David, by Michelangelo.

Rays of light, symbolically represented as horns on the head of Moses ( Michelangelo ), can be a # Hebrew Bible | graphic symbol of Wisdom

Michelangelo's The Last Judgment ( Michelangelo ) | The Last Judgment.

File: P1060319. JPG | Room 46b ; Cast Court — Plaster Cast of David and The Slave, by Michelangelo

File: David von Michelangelo. jpg | Michelangelo's David, 1504, The Accademia Gallery, Florence, Italy

Michelangelo grinned.

Michelangelo found the rabbi in the room of study, a gentle old man with a white beard and luminous grey eyes, robed in black gabardine with a skullcap on his head.

Michelangelo hurried to Sangallo's solitary bachelor room with his sketches, asked the architect to design a stand which would simulate the seated Madonna.

Michelangelo bought some scrap lumber.

He hesitated for a moment when Michelangelo asked him to disrobe, so Michelangelo gave him a piece of toweling to wrap around his loins, led him to the kitchen to take off his clothes.

But at the end of the sitting, when Michelangelo showed him the quick, free drawings, with the mother roughed in, holding her son, the model grasped what Michelangelo was after, and promised to speak to his friends.

The arrangement with Argiento was working well, except that sometimes Michelangelo could not figure who was master and who apprentice.

It took a piece of bad luck to show Michelangelo that the boy was devoted to him.

Though the pain was considerable Michelangelo was not too concerned.

In the second half of the Sixteenth Century, Sinan, the great architect who is the Michelangelo of the East, designed the massive buttresses that now help support the dome.

Michelangelo was the most distinguished of several noted architects who helped design it.

Inside you will find the lovely Sibyls painted by Raphael and a chapel designed by Michelangelo.

Michelangelo and Raphael were also vital figures in this movement, producing works regarded for centuries as embodying the classical notion of perfection.

* A scene in Professione: reporter, a film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, was filmed on the roof of the building.

It can be said of late phase mannerist painting in Florence, that the city that had early breathed life into statuary with the works of masters like Donatello and Michelangelo, was still so awed by them that it petrified the poses of figures in painting.

He studied under Baccio Bandinelli and Jacopo Sansovino ( assisting on the Library of St. Mark's, the Biblioteca Marciana, Venice ) and closely imitated the style of Michelangelo.

Once there, influences as various as drama teacher Wilford Leach, the Maysles brothers, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, Andy Warhol and Alfred Hitchcock impressed upon De Palma the many styles and themes that would shape his own cinema in the coming decades.

Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup and Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation plots were used for the basis of Blow Out.

There are groups of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, ( including his only surviving full-scale cartoon ), Dürer ( a collection of 138 drawings is one of the finest in existence ), Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Claude and Watteau, and largely complete collections of the works of all the great printmakers including Dürer ( 99 engravings, 6 etchings and most of his 346 woodcuts ), Rembrandt and Goya.

* Vittoria Colonna, ( 1490-1547 ), friend of Michelangelo.