Fantasia and

Inspiration
 Overview
• Biography
• Influences
• Anatomical Studies
• Works
• Artistic Theory
 Biography
• He is one of the greatest artists of all time, a man whose
name has become synonymous with the word
"masterpiece": Michelangelo Buonarroti.
• As an artist he was unmatched, the creator of works of
sublime beauty that express the full breadth of the human
condition. His Birth
The second of five brothers, Michelangelo was born on
March 6, 1475, at Caprese, in Tuscany, mother, Francesca
Neri, was too sick and frail to nurse Michelangelo, so he was
placed with a wet nurse, in a family of stone cutters, where
he, "sucked in the craft of hammer and chisel with my
foster mother's milk”
 Influences
• Michelangelo had plenty of influences. when he was young
he would sketch things on his way to art class. His art
teacher, Ghirlandaio taught Michelangelo just about
everything he knows about art. Michelangelo liked the art
of Ghiberti,
•  Donatello, Gioffo, and Masaccio. Pope Julius II forced
Michelangelo to paint, instead of letting him sculpt.
Michelangelo spent much of his life studying nature and
science in order to make his works of art as lifelike as
possible. Michelangelo had different types of influences.
 Anatomical Studies
“Michaelangelo’s first concern was also for
living and therefore moving anatomy, and
a number of his drawings show the
musculature intermediate between bones
and surface anatomy, and in as many
more the layering of muscles is evident in
the final surfaces.”

-Michaelangelo and the language of art

 Anatomical Studies
• The attention to detail
• Manner of study
Davi
d
Florentine Pietà
Bacch Christ the
us Redeemer
crucif
ix
The Battle of Cascina
Sistine Chapel
ceiling
Skeleton muscles veins
 Artistic Theory

His artistic theory instills his philos of having

“create” works from its basis.
 Quotes
“Michaelangelo’s book on the arts and
design was to have dealt with the bones of
the body.”

“The description of the treatise occurs in the

context of a discussion of Michaelangelo’s
study of anatomy, because it is alone
mentioned together with “human
movements and appearances” “
 Quotes
“the skeleton was integral to his
theory of proportion, and that its
character in general had to do with
anatomy and movement in general.”

“the bones provided an order which

was the beginning of the chief topic
of art”
St. Peter's Basilica

Laurentian
Library
Library
St peters basilica
 Other of his works include
• (ARCHITECTURE) Chapel of Leo X ,
Sforza Chapel
• (Painting) The Last Judgment,
The Crucifixion of St. Peter, The
Torment of Saint Anthony
• Sculpture –Brutus, Moses, Madonna
and Child (Madonna of Bruges), The
Genius of Victory
Thank You
SYED AHMAD
CLAUDIUS