In his lifetime, Michelangelo was often called Il Divino (“the divine one”). His contemporaries often admired his terribilità—his ability to instil a sense of awe.

Michelangelo was a sculptor, painter and architect widely considered to be one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance — and arguably of all time. His work demonstrated a blend of psychological insight, physical realism and intensity never before seen.

Death. Michelangelo died on February 18, 1564 — just weeks before his 89th birthday — at his home in Macel de’Corvi, Rome, following a brief illness.

He was an accomplished poet. Michelangelo is best known as a visual artist, yet in his day he was also a respected man of letters. He produced several hundred sonnets and madrigals over his career, often jotting down stray lines of verse as he hammered away at statues in his workshop.

“I’m still learning.” These were the parting words of famous Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo. This man died at the ripe old age of 88, quite a feat considering it was 1564 and people were lucky if they made it past 40.

Michelangelo, who painted the ceiling of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel and designed the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica, passed himself off as poor but was actually too miserly to show his huge wealth, a U.S. art historian says.

Since he was a famous and respected artist, Michelangelo earned a lot of money. For painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he was paid 3000 ducats, which would amount to approximately 78 000 dollars in today’s terms, which at the time was a stellar amount of money.

In 1530, to escape the wrath of the Pope, Michelangelo holed up in a tiny secret room under the Medici Chapel of the Basilica di San Lorenzo. The artist had been working on the lavish tomb when all hell broke loose in Florence, and he was forced into hiding.

As the Louvre’s only Michelangelo marbles, they are arguably his most famous Slaves. They aren’t, however, the only ones. In the 1520s and 1530s, Michelangelo sculpted four more Slaves, which are now located in the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence.

It was 1489 and 14-year old Michelangelo had been apprenticed to the great Italian painter Domenico Ghirlandaio for a year.

Michelangelo

Renaissance

Much is said about the judgment day, but not all is understood. The Bible tells us, “it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27). However, death will not be experienced by those who are alive at Jesus’ second coming.

Michelangelo’s painting never reached the wall, but Leonardo’s did. It was a Leonardo, which meant as much then as now. Vasari reported in 1556 that the Last Supper had deteriorated to “a muddle of blots”, but it has been preserved and worshipped ever since in its ruinous state.

High Renaissance

What was the transfiguration a sign of? The transfiguration is a sign that Jesus was to fulfill the Law and the prophets. It also assured James, Peter, and John the Jesus was indeed the Messiah.

Mark 9:2 begins a recording of the transfiguration of Jesus before Peter, James, and John. This event teaches about Christ’s authority and glory as well as the transformation we should go through as his followers. …

1a : a change in form or appearance : metamorphosis. b : an exalting, glorifying, or spiritual change.

Feast of the Transfiguration, Christian commemoration of the occasion upon which Jesus Christ took three of his disciples, Peter, James, and John, up on a mountain, where Moses and Elijah appeared and Jesus was transfigured, his face and clothes becoming dazzlingly bright (Mark 9:2–13; Matthew 17:1–13; Luke 9:28–36).