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  Michelangelo - Great Buildings Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Painter, sculptor, and architect, Michelangelo Buonarroti was born in Caprese, near Florence, Italy in 1475.
Although a Renaissance artist, Michelangelo generated sculptural detailing that marked the beginning of the Baroque and the end of purely classical architecture.
He always subordinated invention to the needs of overall composition, which to Michelangelo was analogous with the symmetry and articulation of the human body.
www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Michelangelo.html   (233 words)

  
 Enzo Pazzagli Art Park - Parco d'Arte - florence - italy
These led to the commission by De Beers of London for the design of a piece of diamond jewelry.
In '83, he was commissioned by the Compagnia del Paiolo of Florence, of which he is a member, to create the altar and ambone in the chapel built in homage to Michelangelo in the native city of the great artist, Caprese Michelangelo.
The subject of the sculpture, which is entitled "Un Paese Racconta" (A City Tells its Story), is the history of an ancient suffering, all too real even today, of mothers praying and awaiting the return of sons from the war.
www.pazzagli.com /en/artist.htm   (1582 words)

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