[audiobook] King Lear: Parallel Text Edition (Longman Annotated Texts) by Rene Weis at Arts-Photography

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Michelangelo is considered by many art experts to be the greatest Renaissance artist; surpassing even Leonardo da Vinci. Not only was he an exceptional sculptor but also a formidable painter; architect; and poet. Michelangelorsquo;s primary material was marble and the results of his talent and work speak for themselves: Can anything compare to his statue of David or the Pietagrave; he carved at the age of 24? Michelangelo lived to be 88 years old; and he worked until the very end of his life. His last project; inspired by the success of his fresco paintings on the ceiling and walls of the Sistine Chapel in Rome; even though he had never painted as much as a tile before that commission; was the dome of St. Peterrsquo;s Basilica in Vatican City; Rome. Unfortunately; he died before the work was completed. As a teenager; Michelangelo was apprenticed to the Medici family sculpture workshops. Impressed by the young prodigy; he was soon asked to live and study in the palace of Lorenzo dersquo; Medici; one of the leading cultural centers in Italy; where he was educated alongside dersquo; Medicirsquo;s own children. Later in his career; Michelangelo was given permission by the church to study the remains of the dead from which he acquired a near-perfect understanding of the human body as he portrayed it in his sculptures;