When Renaissance artists such as Pinturicchio, Raphael, Michelangelo, Ghirlandaio or Filippino Lippi descended into the ruins of Nero's Domus Aurea, they carved or painted their names and returned with the grottesche style of decoration.

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.

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.

Along with the Biblical and religious references, however, are lyrics about populists who are too concerned with the superficial, (" Michelangelo could've carved your features ") and more about action than thinking through the complexities (" fools rush in where angels fear to tread ").

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 | Michelangelo.

* 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 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.

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

This apparent success in selling his sculpture abroad as well as the conservative Florentine situation may have encouraged Michelangelo to accept the prelate's invitation.

The major Florentine architectural projects by Michelangelo are the unexecuted façade for the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence, and the Medici Chapel ( Capella Medicea ) and Laurentian Library there, and the fortifications of Florence.

For three related sculptures see the Florentine Pietà or The Deposition ( Michelangelo ), the Rondanini Pietà, and the Palestrina Pietà.

Michelangelo had been apprenticed in the workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio, one of the most competent and prolific of Florentine fresco painters, at the time that the latter was employed on a fresco cycle at Santa Maria Novella and whose work was represented on the walls of the Sistine Chapel.

His work has been divided by critics into two periods, an early stage under the influence of Florentine artists such as Michelangelo and a more intense, more anatomically correct later period similar to German

Little is known about his early life, but he was born in Rome, the son of the carpenter Michelangelo Caccini ; he was the older brother of the Florentine sculptor Giovanni Caccini.

Like all Italian sculptors of his generation, Vittoria was influenced also by Michelangelo and by the Florentine Mannerist, Bartolomeo Ammanati.

The three years Michelangelo spent in creating drawings and models for the façade, as well as attempting to open a new marble quarry at Pietrasanta specifically for the project, were among the most frustrating in his career, as work was abruptly canceled by his financially strapped patrons before any real progress had been made.

When he made a request for her to draw a weeping boy, Anguissola drew Boy Bitten by a Crayfish and sent it back to Michelangelo, who immediately recognized her talent.

Michelangelo was intimidated by the scale of the commission, and made it known from the outset of Julius II's approach that he would prefer to decline.

The style adopted for this part of the museum was Italian Renaissance, much use was made of terracotta, brick and mosaic, this north façade was intended as the main entrance to the museum with its bronze doors designed by James Gamble & Reuben Townroe having six panels depicting: Humphry Davy ( chemistry ); Isaac Newton ( astronomy ); James Watt ( mechanics ); Bramante ( architecture ); Michelangelo ( sculpture ); Titian ( painting ); thus representing the range of the museums collections, Godfrey Sykes also designed the terracotta embellishments and the mosaic in the pediment of the North Façade commemorating the Great Exhibition the profits from which helped to fund the museum, this is flanked by terracotta statue groups by Percival Ball.

This cemetery is the only place in the world containing a complete collection of replica Michelangelo sculptures, which were made from castings taken from the originals and using marble from the same quarries in Carrara, Italy as used by Michelangelo.

While his brothers wrestle with the implications of their mutation and their place in the world, Michelangelo enjoys relaxing in front of the TV, skateboarding throughout the labyrinthine underground sewers that the Turtles have made their home, reading comic books, and in other media, eating lots of pizza.

During this period, probably in early 1542, he made the acquaintance of Michelangelo, but his madrigalian settings of two of the artist's sonnets were received with indifference ; indeed, from Michelangelo's letters on the topic, he probably considered himself unmusical and incapable of appreciating Arcadelt's work.

In 1965, a film was made of The Agony and the Ecstasy, starring Heston as Michelangelo and Rex Harrison as Pope Julius II.

In 1496, Michelangelo made a sleeping Cupid figure and treated it with acidic earth to make it seem ancient.

In 1496, Michelangelo made a sleeping Cupid figure and treated it with acidic earth to make it seem ancient.

Michelangelo made a wooden model, which shows how he adjusted the classical proportions of the facade, drawn to scale, after the ideal proportions of the human body, to the greater height of the nave.

The artists profiled in the book have made major contributions to their respective mediums ( Charles Schulz, Charlie Parker, Lenny Bruce, Michelangelo, Madonna, Andy Warhol, Amy Winehouse, and dozens of others ).

* Michelangelo made a fortune from his painting but denied himself all comforts and slept with his boots on.

The prestige of the academy grew during the deanships of Michelangelo Unterberger and Paul Troger, and in 1767 the archduchesses Maria Anna and Maria Carolina were made the first Honorary Members.

Michelangelo made the transept 27 meters wide, thus providing vast cubical spaces at each end of the transept.

At his 1895 trial, Oscar Wilde cited the example of David and Jonathan in support of " the love that dare not speak its name ": Such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare.

This statue is made in Lecce by the firm Capoccia and was done on copy of the statue of the famous Michelangelo in St. Peter's Basilica.

Sigmund's father Michelangelo Zois ( 1694 – 1777 ) was a Lombardian merchant who moved to Ljubljana where he made a considerable fortune in dealing with iron and holding mines.

Mentioned by Vasari as one who made a small copy of the Cartoon of Michelangelo ’ s Battle of Cascina ( 1506 ).