Michelangelo: His Life & Work

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List of works by Michelangelo

The following is a list of works of painting, sculpture and architecture by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Lost works are included, but not those that never got beyond the commissioning stage. Michelangelo also left many drawings and some works in poetry.
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Sculpture
•   Madonna of the Steps (Madonna of the Stairs) (c. 1491) — Marble, 55,5 × 40 cm, Casa Buonarroti, Florence
•   Battle of the Centaurs (c. 1492) — Marble, 84,5 × 90,5 cm, Casa Buonarroti, Florence
•   Crucifix (1492) — Polychrome wood, 142 × 135 cm, Santo Spirito, Florence
•   The Ark of St Dominic San Domenico, Bologna
o   St. Petronius (1494–1495) — Marble, height 64 cm
o   St. Proclus (1494–1495) — Marble, height 58,5 cm
o   Angel (1494–1495) — Marble, height 51,5 cm
•   Bacchus (1496–1497) — Marble, height 203 cm, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
•   Pietà (1499–1500) Marble, height 174 cm, width at the base 195 cm, St. Peter's Basilica, Rome
•   Madonna and Child (Madonna of Bruges) (1501–1504) — Marble, height 128 cm, Church of Our Lady, Bruges
•   St. Paul (1503–1504) Marble, Cathedral, Siena
•   St. Peter (1503–1504) Marble, Cathedral, Siena
•   Pius (1503–1504) Marble, Cathedral, Siena
•   Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John (Taddei Tondo) (c. 1503) — Marbel, diameter 82,5 cm, Royal Academy of Arts, London
•   Madonna and Child (Tondo Pitti) (c. 1503) — 85,8 × 82 cm, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
•   St. Matthew (c. 1505) — Marble, height 271 cm, Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence
•   The Tomb of Pope Julius II (Underwent six different phases, in 1505, 1513, 1516, 1525–1526, 1532 and 1542)
o   Moses (c. 1513–1515) — San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome
o   Rebellious Slave (1513–1516) — Louvre, Paris
o   Dying Slave (1513–1516) — Louvre, Paris
o   The Genius of Victory (c. 1532–1534) — Marble, height 261 cm, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
o   Young Slave,Bearded Slave,Atlas Slave,Awakening Slave, {1513;1519-1535}— Accademia, Florence
o   Rachael {1545}
o   Leah{1545}
•   The Medici Chapel (1520–1534) Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence
o   Tomb of Giuliano de' Medici, Night and Day
o   Tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici, Evening and Morning (also known as Dusk and Dawn)
o   Virgin and Child
•   David (1501-1504)
•   Apollo (David) (c. 1530) — Marble, height 146 cm, Museo Nazionale del Bargello
•   Cristo della Minerva (Christ Carrying the Cross) (1519–1520) — Marble, height 205 cm, church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome
•   Brutus (1540) — Marble, height 95 cm, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
•   Florentine Pietà (c. 1550) — Marble, height 253 cm, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence
•   Rondanini Pietà (unfinished, 1552–1564) — Marble, height 195 cm, Castello Sforzesco, Milan
Disputed
•   Palestrina Pietà — Marble, height 253 cm, Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence
Painting
•   The Battle of Cascina, an unfinished fresco that was to be painted in competition with Leonardo da Vinci's The Battle of Anghiari (painting)
•   Doni Tondo (c. 1503–1506) — Tempera on panel, diameter 120 cm, Uffizi, Florence
•   The Entombment (c. 1505) — Tempera on panel National Gallery, London.
•   Histories of the Genesis, the Ancestors of Christ, Prophets and Sybils (Sistine Chapel Ceiling) (1508–1512) Frescoes, Sistine Chapel, Vatican Palace, Rome
•   The Last Judgment (1534–1541) — Fresco, 1370 × 1220 cm, Sistine Chapel, Vatican Palace, Rome
•   The Martyrdom of St. Peter (1542–1550) — Fresco, 625 × 662 cm, Cappella Paolina, Vatican Palace, Rome
•   The Conversion of St. Paul (1542–1550) — Fresco, 625 × 661 cm, Cappella Paolina, Vatican Palace, Rome
Architecture
•   St. Peter's Basilica in Rome
•   Cordonata Capitolina in Rome
•   Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome
•   Palazzo Farnese in Rome
•   The new Medici Chapel --- New Sacresty ,Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze, florence.
•   Staircase to the Laurentian Library, Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze, florence.
•   Plan for the facade of Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze, florence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Michelangelo

[Bianca]

Dru:

Thank you for the thread and the pictures.

Like Niagara Falls, no matter how many times I see them, Michelangelo's
works just leave me dazed and speechless by their awesome beauty.

Love and Peace,

[Dru]

Thank you, Bianca, it leaves me speechless, too.  No other artist can match Michelangelo for the sheer beauty of his work, with the possible exception of Da Vinci.  Michelangeko's body of work was far more extensive than Leonardo's, though.

Have you ever seen any of these artworks in person?

[Bianca]

No, Dru, I have never seen his works in person although I have been to St.
Peter's, but not in the Vatican itself. 

I have never been to Florence, as I come from the central part of Italy on
the Adriatic Sea, just south of the Republic of San Marino.

I have never gone home alone and the others have always been in a rush,
after landing in Rome, to get 'home' and be with family.  But then, there are
plenty of art works and antiquities where I come from also.  As a matter of
fact my hometown, Ascoli Piceno, is far older than Rome, which was founded
in the 8th century BCE.

Getting back to Michelangelo, I DO like him better than Leonardo Da Vinci.
Da Vinci's genius was in diverse fields.  Michelangelo stayed with his art.

I would like to ask you to please put some pictures here of his 'unfinished'
works.  The majority of them were letft like that intentionally.  One of them
is also a 'Pieta'.  I just love them.  They truly illustrate his theory that marble
just held the figures within itself, waiting for his chisel to liberate them.

Thank you, Dru. With Love and Peace,
Bianca

[Dru]

Sure, Bianca, I can find some, and thank you for letting me in on some of your life experiences.  I would love to go to Italy someday!



Michelangelo, Unfinished Bound Slave (1519-36)
Marble, height 208 cm
Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence
   
             
Unfinished Bound Slave 
       
                                            by Beth Houston — Michelangelo, c. 1519

 
Reduction of the given mass creates
A sculpture’s final form: This incomplete
Emerging torso bears its wrestled weight’s
Chaotic, unshaped mind; no freed, discrete
Or fully human body’s bulk evolves
Or comes alive. His feet abort, still sunk
Deep in the primal soup, each leg dissolves,
The **** just extends the uncarved hunk
Of rock. The flexed position’s torque suggests
There’s movement, but its energy stops, stuck
In stasis. Here a fallen angel rests,
Manifests: Sisyphus cursing his luck,
Slave to his truth, extinguished fire his own
Work in its vise, grasped in a hand of stone.





 

[Dru]

Pietà Rondanini, (unfinished)
1552-64
Marble, height: 195 cm
Castello Sforzesco, Milan

[Bianca]

Thank you, Dru!

See what I mean?  The Bound Slave would not have had the same impact if

it was finished.

Keep them coming, if you will.   What a feast for the eyes!!!

Love and Peace,
Bianca

[Dru]

Belatedly, but here are some more:

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One very dark David!

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Tomb of Pope Julius II,

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