Whats's with Michelangelo and painting on walls?

When did this happen?


How did this happen?


Who is his real name?


Answer these and get 10 points ^_^Whats's with Michelangelo and painting on walls?
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 鈥?February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer. Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgement on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.Whats's with Michelangelo and painting on walls?
His mom never told him not to write on walls!


When it happened: When he thought it would be cool to draw on everything


How it happened: Well, what do you expect when you give a 6 year old a can of paint


Who is his real name: Micky Angelo
Well ! This is really 10 point Question. The paintings on walls are called Fresco. He is famous for his most known fresco on The Sistine Chapel ceiling in Vatican, Which he painted between 1508 and 1512. His real name and full name is Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni. Michelangelo was commissioned in 1508 by Pope Julius II to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo was more of a sculpture then painter but he has to accept the commission from pope because pope was a power full military leader also.
He was too poor to afford canvasses and was asked to paint the church,many centuries ago,the cistine chapel
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 鈥?February 18, 1564).





1. For artists - The renaissence in Italy took place in three important studios. It represents a period in history when artisans - craftsmen were seperated from masters of fine art.





Walls were the only really important places to paint, the other option was to take a wooden board and coat it in plaster. The only paint that those artist had was made of lots of egg yolks. It was called Tempera and was used in all the early icon paintings.





However it used more eggs than could be laid for large walls. so Freaso, painting onto walls was used. Fresco is the painting of pigments into fresh (wet) lime plaster. In this case no binding agent is used for the pigments. They are made into a paste using water and are then brushed directly into the wet plaster surface. It is the plaster ground that binds the pigments during the carbonation (hardening) of the lime. It creates a bond so solid that it is nearly impossible to dissolve. Due to the extreme alkali of lime only those pigments which are alkali-fast can be used. Fresco technique was well evolved even 2000 years ago. Murals from Pompeii and Rome are still well preserved. Fresco retains an amazing vibrance of color not found with other media. Fresco was the most expensive art form, not a cheap alternative.





Painting with oil developed in Northern Europe at the same time (Van Dyke) and allowed a canvas to be used. Tempera would have flaked off a canvas support.





Back to the three schools.


Michelangelo was born in Caprese near Arezzo, Tuscany, the second of five sons. His father, Lodovico di Leonardo di Buonarotti di Simoni, was the resident magistrate in Caprese. Michelangelo was raised in Florence and later, during the prolonged illness and after the death of his mother, lived with a stonecutter and his wife and family in the town of Settignano where his father owned a marble quarry and a small farm.





Against his father's wishes and after a period of grammatics studies with the humanist Francesco da Urbino, Michelangelo continued his apprenticeship in painting with Domenico Ghirlandaio and in sculpture with Bertoldo di Giovanni. Michelangelo's father was able to get Ghirlandaio to pay the young artist, which was unheard of at the time. In fact, most apprentices paid their masters for the education.





Impressed, Domenico recommended him to the ruler of the city, Lorenzo de' Medici, and Michelangelo left his workshop in 1489. From 1490 to 1492, Michelangelo attended Lorenzo's school. Lorenzo's court included artists such as Piero and Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Andrea del Verrocchio, Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Filippino Lippi, and of course Michelangelo.





Leonardo was also apprenticed to one of the most proficient artists of his day, Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio. The workshop of this renowned master was at the centre of the intellectual currents of Florence, assuring the young Leonardo of an education in the humanities. Among the painters apprenticed or associated with the workshop and also to become famous, were Perugino, Botticelli, and Lorenzo di Credi.





In Venice was the third studio of Jacopo Bellini - who had been a pupil of Gentile da Fabriano working with Brunelleschi, Donatello and Masaccio.





In 1424 he opened a workshop in Venice, which produced a young Andrea Mantegna Alburich Durer, Geovani Bellini (his son) and Titian.





So returning back to the man, This was a time of war, even the Pope had an army. He moved from Florence to Rome, and then in Michelangelo returned to Florence in 1499鈥?501. Things were changing in the city after the fall of Savonarola and the rise of the gonfaloniere Pier Soderini. He was asked by the consuls of the Guild of Wool to complete an unfinished project begun 40 years earlier by Agostino di Duccio: a colossal statue portraying David as a symbol of Florentine freedom, to be placed in the Piazza della Signoria, in front of the Palazzo Vecchio. Michelangelo responded by completing his most famous work, David in 1504. This masterwork, created out of marble from the quarries at Carrara, definitively established his prominence as a sculptor of extraordinary technical skill and strength of symbolic imagination.





In 1505 Michelangelo was invited back to Rome by the newly elected Pope Julius II. He was commissioned to build the Pope's tomb. Under the patronage of the Pope, Michelangelo had to constantly stop work on the tomb in order to accomplish numerous other tasks. Because of these interruptions, Michelangelo worked on the tomb for 40 years. The tomb, of which the central feature is Michelangelo's statue of Moses, was never finished to Michelangelo's satisfaction. It is located in the Church of S. Pietro in Vincoli in Rome.





The major interruption on the tomb was the commission to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which took four years to complete (1508 鈥?1512).





According to Michelangelo's own account - Bramante and Raphael convinced the Pope to commission Michelangelo in a medium not familiar to the artist, in order that the Pope might be diverted from his preference for sculpture into fresco painting.





Michelangelo was originally commissioned to paint the 12 Apostles, but protested for a different and more complex scheme - The composition eventually contained over 300 figures. Among the most famous paintings on the ceiling is the Creation of Adam.
Michelangelo was here. Posh tagger, that's all.