It is usually said: a jack of all trades, but a master of none, although when it comes to Michelangelo by Lodovico Buonarroti he was not just a jack of all trades, but a master of each and everyone. Michelangelo was considered the greatest living artist of his lifetime, and it still holds up. A good number of his works are among the most famous/influential in history to date. Michelangelo was born in Caprese Michelangelo, Italy on March 6, 1475, and is one of the few during the Renaissance age who completely changed the game of art and how it was viewed in the world. The reason he changed the art game was because he brought realism to art and how he challenged old ways of thinking by showing people that painting the human body was not a sin. This encouraged many different and new thoughts regarding the presentation of art. The reason Michelangelo became an artist was due to the influence of many artists: one artist that comes to mind is Lorenzeo Ghiberti, a Florentine artist from the early 1400s; Ghiberti had designed the metal doors for the Florence Cathedral which showed scenes from the Old Testament. Michelangelo's first work of art that truly shone was when he was commissioned to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling as a sort of consolation prize when Pope Julius II temporarily scaled back plans for a huge sculpted monument to himself that Michelangelo would had to complete. Although Michelangelo was also a painter, architect and poet, it was his marble sculptures that made you want to understand why he made them this way, what emotions he was trying to portray and all the background knowledge about how that sculpture is born. We say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an Original Essay The first marble sculpture that really caught my attention was “Moses.” When I saw it the first thought that came to my mind was "Wow, this is incredibly beautiful" and how crazy it is that one person managed to create something so real with all that detail behind it, let alone in that time period, but even now it still holds up amazingly. One thing that is different with this sculpture compared to the others is that it was made later in his career. You can really see all the refinements of the Moses compared to his previous work. While that's not to say it's better than the others, I'm willing to say that you can definitely see more realism in this one than his older works. The Moses was created between 1513 and 1515 and was described as “Moses is an imposing figure: he is almost eight feet tall sitting down! He has huge muscular arms and an angry, intense look in his eyes. Moses shows his courage and passion when he was struggling to complete the tomb of Pope Julius II. It is true that he never completed the Pope's tomb, but in Moses we can once again see his genius at play. He considered it his most important work. The Moses sculpture, as I see it, represented Michelangelo being in total understanding with his talent and abilities, and then managing to put it all together at age 38: his prime. The next marble sculpture that caught my attention was La Pietà. . When I saw the images, I had a different thought than when I looked at the Moses. The only word I had to describe it was beautiful. The Pietà was created between 1498 and 1500. In 1497, a cardinal named Jean de Billheres asked Michelangelo to create a sculptural work to be placed in a side chapel of the Basilica of Old St. Peter in Rome. This resulted in the Pietà which would be so successful as to bring recognition again.