Hello and welcome to this week's epochs which will be part one of two.

All about the life and times and career and art of Michelangelo, Michelangelo Barunarotti, second of the great Italian artistic geniuses.

So Michelangelo, a lot like Leonardo, was a master of more than one discipline, a painter, a sculpture, an architect and even some of his poetry wasn't all that bad, but certainly the three great things being an architect, a painter and a sculptor. Now he very much considered himself a sculptor first or

foremost. And of course he is famous for some great paintings, the Last judgment in the Sistine Chapel and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel of course.

Both of those are in the middle and the end of his life, which I'll be speaking about next time.

But he didn't really consider himself a great painter although posterity history has decided he is or he is of course

but no sculpting first or foremost was what he considered himself great at and he's certainly one of the best to ever do it.

The, well, I'll come to it later, but the Pieter in St. Peter's

I consider one of the greatest sculptures ever done.

So like last time I was reading a lot from the lives of Vassari and I asked you guys for comments or feedback and whether it was too much reading or whether you'd want more reading, whether it was about just right.

And the general consensus was that it was fine.

There were a few comments saying it was too much.

So what I decided I'm going to do is for this one for Michelangelo I'll do about the same amount of reading

again from Vassari's lives but for the next the next topic where I talk about the Medici family a couple of centuries

plus I think what I'll do is maybe no quotes no reading and just do it entirely

in my own words because it's much more of it

it'll be much more of an overview so I'm going to do it that way and we'll see how that works

out and you let me know what you prefer.

So a quick word on the sources before I jump in.

There is Vissari now Vissari new Michelangelo and very much admired him, looked up to him.

Michelangelo lived to be very old, he lived to be ninety, or eighty nine years old.

And when Vissari wrote his life of Michelangelo I mean Vassari even worked

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