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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet whose best-known works include the marble sculpture David (1501) and the paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (1508–1512).
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- noun Florentine sculptor and painter and architect; one of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance (1475-1564)
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In the center of which, is a cupid sculpture, attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti now authenticated, the original is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and an exact replica replaces it.
Melissa Berkelhammer: Behind the Scenes With Geoffrey Bradfield Melissa Berkelhammer 2011
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In the center of which, is a cupid sculpture, attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti now authenticated, the original is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and an exact replica replaces it.
Melissa Berkelhammer: Behind the Scenes With Geoffrey Bradfield Melissa Berkelhammer 2011
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A case could be made that the ridiculously talented Florentine artist Michelangelo Buonarroti set the standard that all subsequent art work strives to reach.
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A case could be made that the ridiculously talented Florentine artist Michelangelo Buonarroti set the standard that all subsequent art work strives to reach.
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Caravaggio's earliest surviving works suggest he had closely studied the male nudes on the Sistine Ceiling painted by his namesake, Michelangelo Buonarroti.
The Misery Memoirist James Hall 2011
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The Muscarelle Museum in Williamsburg, Va., is displaying 12 drawings by Michelangelo Buonarroti, as well as several of his poems and other materials, that provide a rare glimpse into the Italian master's artistic process and way of working.
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The Muscarelle Museum in Williamsburg, Va., is displaying 12 drawings by Michelangelo Buonarroti, as well as several of his poems and other materials, that provide a rare glimpse into the Italian master's artistic process and way of working.
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The Muscarelle Museum in Williamsburg, Va., is displaying 12 drawings by Michelangelo Buonarroti, as well as several of his poems and other materials, that provide a rare glimpse into the Italian master's artistic process and way of working.
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Michelangelo Buonarroti, known by his first name the world over as the singular artistic genius, sculptor, and architect, was also an anatomist, a secret he concealed by destroying almost all of his anatomical sketches and notes.
Dr. Douglas Fields: Michelangelo's Secret Message in the Sistine Chapel 2010
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Michelangelo Buonarroti, known by his first name the world over as the singular artistic genius, sculptor, and architect, was also an anatomist, a secret he concealed by destroying almost all of his anatomical sketches and notes.
Dr. Douglas Fields: Michelangelo's Secret Message in the Sistine Chapel 2010
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