Bao Huo Lao Biographies Library · Giants 100 Biographies Series -- Michelangelo

Author: Ding Yanmo (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 1998-10-01
Features: We are delighted to recommend the "Giant Biographies Series" to young friends. At the turn of the century, having such a fine series accompany you is a joy in wisdom. We believe that from the footsteps of these giants and masters, you can learn how to properly handle success and failure, comfort and hardship, joy and pain, smoothness and tribulation, understand how to face life, how to be a person, how to pursue knowledge, how to shape oneself, and how to shape the future.
Principal of Peking University, Secretary Zhao Yulin
Principal of Tsinghua University, Secretary Zhao Qinggang
Giants are the elite of humanity. They have made outstanding contributions to the progress and civilization of human society. Their spirit of struggle and extraordinary achievements are deeply admired by people, becoming models for others to learn from. Giants are human, not gods; they come from ordinary people yet surpass them. Their lofty ideals and belief in seeking happiness for their country and humanity are the driving force behind their relentless pursuit and fearlessness of difficulties.
Principal of Tianjin Nankai Middle School, Kang Xiuyan
To carefully read this series of books is like seeing their appearance, speech, and actions, and feeling their ideals, beliefs, ambitions, and moral character. This will help you learn how to be a person, how to pursue knowledge, and how to build a career.
Principal of Fudan University, Cao Tianren
During the Italian Renaissance, the great sculptor, painter, and architect Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) emerged, whose artistic achievements and historical status even surpassed Leonardo da Vinci. Michelangelo's life was filled with legends. After his genius was monopolized by several Roman Popes, he was also forced into the emotional whirlwind of court intrigues and conflicts, leaving many mysteries for later generations.
Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475–1564) was a sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance in Italy. Born in Florence, he studied painting with Domenico Ghirlandaio for a year at the age of thirteen and then sculpture with Bertoldo di Giovanni, a student of Donatello, for a year, mainly relying on self-study. His artistic creations were influenced by humanism and the religious reform movement of Savonarola, combining realistic methods with romantic fantasy to express the patriotic spirit and struggle of the urban class at the time. He possessed strong willpower and a magnificent sense of scale in his art. His mid-career sculpture of David is considered a symbol of the strength in fighting for justice. Later, he worked for four years to independently complete the monumental ceiling fresco "The Creation of the World" in the Sistine Chapel. In his later years, his Medici Tomb sculptures—"Dawn," "Dusk," "Day," and "Night"—possess a calm yet tragic quality, revealing the agitation of emotions and the conflict of wills, reflecting the state of freedom and independence lost by the Italian people at the time. Other important works include the fresco "The Last Judgment," the sculptures "Moses" and "The Captives," and architectural designs such as the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and the administrative buildings of the Piazza della Signoria. He also left behind a collection of poems.