Michelangelo
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- proper noun
- /ˌmaɪkəlˈændʒəloʊ/
- Yesterday, I circled Michelangelo's David for hours.
- Michelangelo's work
- Michelangelo's frescoes
- Michelangelo's drawings
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Watch on YouTubeSweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures.
- Sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures.
- If he's an Italian artist, it's Michelangelo.
- A metaphor I like to use is one of, you know, Michelangelo, the sculpture, the artist, the sculpture.
- I would say the two winners by a clear margin are both by Michelangelo.
- Now, you guys all know the Gophers and the stinky balls and the the boobs in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel.
- We're almost with, you know, the Renaissance guys like Michelangelo had this vision of what he was going to paint on the Sistine Chapel wall.
- And it's this Michelangelo's Pieta in this beautiful marble sculpture that's in the Vatican.
- When you see the David by Michelangelo, you burst into tears because it's my, my God that came from man that's inspired.
- But Michelangelo used to say that he would look at the, the block of marble and that he could see inside of it the form.
- I can sell a book that is drawn by Michelangelo and written by my dog.
Examples
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One of the Medicis, Pope Sixtus the Fifth, asked Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel.
Fiction book (1997) -
THE PROFESSOR: I know how Pope Julius felt when Michelangelo unveiled the Sistine ceiling.
Fiction book (1997) -
And that artist's name was... Michelangelo.
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Did you ever see Michelangelo's David?
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The marks we see here were made by Michelangelo's own hands.
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Previous sculptures had attempted and failed, but Michelangelo saw inside of the marble what was David.
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I felt insights pouring into my head, felt Michelangelo's intellect touching mine.
Fiction book (1995) -
When he was just 26 years old, Michelangelo was about to make his mark as a renowned artist.
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Did you ever see Michelangelo's famous statue of David in Florence?
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I look up at Michelangelo's incomparable fresco of the Creation of Man in the Sistine Chapel.
Synonyms
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An Italian artist who sculpts, paints, and designs buildings, famous for the Sistine Chapel ceiling and the statue of David
Surface Forms
Etymology
Michelangelo is a combination of Michel, the form of Michael, and Angelo, which means 'angel'. Think of it as 'Michael-angel', a grand name that fits the famous Italian artist who painted the Sistine Chapel and made the statue of David.