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    Sculpting the Earth’s Surface Paper Sculpting the Earth’s Surface Paper GLG 101 4/6/2012 The Ganges River Basin‚ along with its tributaries travel amongst three different countries. One of these includes the southern region of Bangladesh. The main source of freshwater in Bangladesh comes from the Ganges River.  Water and soil pollution is now one of the major problems occurring in Bangladesh and the Ganges River Basin. It has been an ongoing problem for many years so it is not like it

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    its achievements in painting‚ architecture‚ and sculpture to name a few. Pietà was created by the artist Michelangelo whose life time was 1475-1564. Michelangelo sculpted the well-known piece of work‚ the Pietà ‚prior to the age of thirty. In 1496 Michelangelo relocates to Rome where he completes one of his well-known pieces. Maybe he had the same conception as this was the only piece Michelangelo ever signed. Pietà is still located at St. Peter’s basilica in Vatican City.  This elegant sculpture illustrates

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    and killed him. The first David that I’m going to talk about is David in the period of High Renaissance done by Michelangelo Buonarroti. Michelangelo was one of the greatest sculptor of all time. As his work David become one of the most famous masterpiece that he has done‚ which has been admired by a lot of people even until now. It was made between the year 1501-1504 by Michelangelo when he was only 24. He was given a giant slab of marble that other sculptor had disregard years before. No one

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    Bernini Vs Michelangelo

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    When it comes to art‚ everyone knows of the two most infamous sculptors that have ever lain feet on this Earth. I am referring to the great Michelangelo and the brilliant Bernini. These two artists are known for being some of the best artists during their era. Michelangelo is one of the most well-known Renaissance artists to ever live‚ whereas Bernini is famously known as being a Baroque artist. Each era had a new style of art and these artists are the ones that really defined these new styles. These

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    Distrustful‚ argumentative‚ creative and highly competitive‚ Michelangelo Buonarroti was a sculptor of genius. Ross King’s awe-inspiring book Michelangelo And The Pope’s Ceiling tells the story how this genius sculptor created one of the greatest treasures of The Renaissance‚ the ceiling frescos of the Sistine Chapel. King draws a written and interesting portrait of Michelangelo that includes family‚ his fellow artists‚ his chaotic life and times in a thirty-one chapter book. As King points out

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    will be judged accordingly. Michelangelo seems to have painted this according to more of the Catholic belief system and what they think the Last Judgement will look like. He also seems to add some of the mythological aspects that are in the passages in some of the characters that are in the painting. He could have wanted to paint the people naked to convey how before God everything was laid out before him and that they had no more secrets. Within this painting Michelangelo crams many things

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    Michelangelo Last Judgement

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    Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni is a highly respected and known Italian sculptor‚ painter‚ and poet who is to this day considered one of the best artists of all time. One of his most famous works is the ceiling fresco he painted in the Sistine Chapel‚ which is in Vatican City‚ Rome. Twenty-five years later‚ when Michelangelo was sixty years old‚ he was asked by Pope Clement VII to paint the alter wall in the Sistine Chapel: the Last Judgment. This piece represents the Second Coming of

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    Comparative Essay Michelangelo and Caravaggio were possibly the two most renowned painters during the Renaissance period. Both Renaissance artists painted religious scenes‚ approaching their artworks in diverse ways according to their personal framework and attitudes. Where Michelangelo’s tortured soul was portrayed directly onto his paintings‚ Caravaggio’s almost arrogant attitude and need for action and drama resulted in his dark‚ melodramatic pieces. Both artists were working on commissions

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    Michelangelo was the greatest master of the human figure in the Renaissance and in his detailed masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel he proved that he was exactly that. The Last Judgment was a monumental piece of artwork that has so many expressive meanings all elaborately placed together to make one huge masterpiece. Michelangelo embodies different stories combined into one that all have separate religious meaning. He expressed the church reform and shows nudity that was not highly accepted; on the

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    Michelangelo completed the Sistine Chapel on a curved ceiling by standing on a unique scaffolding system which was a wooden platform high up on the walls of the chapel. It was strong enough to hold workers and materials. He would’ve had to bend backwards and maybe sometimes lay on the platform in awkward positions‚ painting over his head. The structure of the composition is that Michelangelo has used fine details in his use of images for ‘Creation of Adam’‚ ‘The Last Judgement’ and all the angels

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