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He wrote a poem that said, "My brush, above my face continually, makes it a splendid floor by dripping down" |
Michelangelo
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$1,600 |
DJ |
ART & ARTISTS |
2024-10-25 |
#9190 |
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In 1505 this 1-named artist planned to make 12 marble Apostles for a local cathedral, but he'd be called to Rome by pope-ular demand |
Michelangelo
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$400 |
J |
VERY ARTISTIC |
2023-02-24 |
#8815 |
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In a 1509 poem he wrote, "My brush, above me all the time, dribbles paint so my face makes a fine floor for droppings" |
Michelangelo
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$1,600 |
DJ |
ARTISTS |
2021-02-05 |
#8330 |
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It is rumored that in 1508 Raphael & Bramante pushed for this man to paint a Vatican ceiling, hoping he would fail |
Michelangelo
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$800 |
DJ |
HOW ARTSY |
2020-11-12 |
#8279 |
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One of his Sistine Chapel ceiling frescos shows the great flood |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
J |
BIBLICAL ART |
2016-06-14 |
#7322 |
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He tried to refuse Pope Julius II's commission to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling but eventually gave in |
Michelangelo
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$400 |
DJ |
COMMISSIONED ARTWORKS |
2015-02-18 |
#7008 |
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This noted chapel painter died in Rome on February 18, 1564 |
Michelangelo
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$1,200 |
DJ |
WHAT AN ARTIST DIES IN ME! |
2014-06-20 |
#6865 |
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(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.) For "The Recruit" in 1966, Rockwell borrowed theposeof the football player from a sculpture of Giuliano de' Medici by this Florentine master |
Michelangelo
DD
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$1,000 |
J |
THE ART OF NORMAN ROCKWELL |
2014-04-30 |
#6828 |
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From the spring of 1508 until October 1512, he painted on a scaffold with his "beard turned up to heaven" |
Michelangelo
DD
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$3,500 |
DJ |
ITALIAN ART |
2012-11-28 |
#6488 |
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Charlton Heston felt "The Agony and the Ecstasy" as this ceiling painter |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
J |
ARTISTS ON FILM |
2011-10-03 |
#6216 |
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In 1501 he was commissioned to make a statue of David for the cathedral of Florence |
Michelangelo
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$400 |
DJ |
ART & ARTISTS |
2011-04-14 |
#6129 |
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Around 1492 he created the marble "Battle Of The Centaurs"; no ceiling on his genius! |
Michelangelo
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$800 |
DJ |
THE WAR OF ART |
2010-12-10 |
#6040 |
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Even while painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he still signed his letters "Sculptor in Rome" |
Michelangelo
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$400 |
DJ |
RENAISSANCE ARTISTS |
2009-12-21 |
#5816 |
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It would be a "Pieta" if you didn't recognize this artist's monogram, seen here |
Michelangelo
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$800 |
DJ |
ARTE ITALIANO |
2009-02-02 |
#5621 |
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Pietro Torrigiano is remembered not so much for his art as for breaking this fellow Florentine sculptor's nose |
Michelangelo
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$1,200 |
DJ |
ALL ABOUT ARTISTS |
2008-09-23 |
#5527 |
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Carved in Rome, the "Pieta" is the only work signed by this sculptor |
Michelangelo
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$800 |
DJ |
ROMAN ART |
2007-11-02 |
#5325 |
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Artemisia Gentileschi was paid 3 times the going rate to paint this ceiling painter's family home |
Michelangelo
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$400 |
DJ |
ART HERSTORY |
2007-06-26 |
#5262 |
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His marble "David" would be hard to lose, but his smaller bronze "David" has been missing since the 18th century |
Michelangelo
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$400 |
DJ |
LOST ART |
2006-06-05 |
#5016 |
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1965:Charlton Heston |
Michelangelo
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$400 |
DJ |
BIG-SCREEN ARTISTS |
2006-05-03 |
#4993 |
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This "David" sculptor was the only living artist in Vasari's 1550 "Lives of the Artists" |
Michelangelo
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$400 |
DJ |
ITALIAN ART |
2003-10-24 |
#4400 |
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Over 30 years after starting the Sistine Chapel, he made his last paintings for the Vatican's Pauline Chapel |
Michelangelo
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$400 |
DJ |
ART |
2003-10-03 |
#4385 |
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He finished sculpting "David" in 1504 but never completed his 12 apostles for Florence's cathedral |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
J |
ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS |
2003-05-29 |
#4329 |
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Upon completing the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in 1512, he wrote to his father, "The pope is well satisfied" |
Michelangelo
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$400 |
DJ |
ART & ARTISTS |
2003-04-28 |
#4306 |
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Laszlo Toth took a hammer to his Pieta & Pietro Cannata took one to his David |
Michelangelo
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$100 |
J |
ART ATTACK |
2001-10-19 |
#3940 |
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Charlton Heston in "The Agony and the Ecstasy" |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
DJ |
ARTISTS ON FILM |
2000-02-28 |
#3571 |
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It's his neck-bending depiction of the prophet Jeremiah seen here: |
Michelangelo
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$600 |
DJ |
ARTISTIC MASTERS |
1999-07-22 |
#3444 |
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In his final years, he worked on pietas that are less famous than the one he created for the Vatican |
Michelangelo
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$400 |
DJ |
ART & ARTISTS |
1999-05-21 |
#3400 |
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This "Pieta" sculptor's statue of Bacchus is in the Bargello in Florence |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
DJ |
ART & ARTISTS |
1999-02-03 |
#3323 |
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Thefollowingis a detail of perhaps his greatest painting: |
Michelangelo
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$100 |
J |
NAME THAT ARTIST |
1998-04-15 |
#3148 |
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You can see his unfinished "Rondanini Pieta" at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan |
Michelangelo
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$400 |
DJ |
ARTISTS |
1998-03-31 |
#3137 |
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In the 1550s this artist & sculptor was architect for the Palazzo Farnese |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
DJ |
ART & ARTISTS |
1997-09-01 |
#2986 |
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He began his Sistine Chapel work with the Noah scenes over the entrance door |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
DJ |
ARTISTS |
1997-07-07 |
#2976 |
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The artists who covered nudity painted by him in the Sistine Chapel were called "breeches makers" |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
DJ |
ART & ARTISTS |
1997-04-24 |
#2924 |
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The "Dying Slave", sculpted by this Italian master in the early 1500s, is in the Louvre |
Michelangelo
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$600 |
DJ |
ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS |
1997-02-14 |
#2875 |
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"The Holy Family" is the only surviving panel painting by this "Pieta" artist |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
DJ |
ART & ARTISTS |
1996-11-18 |
#2811 |
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2 decades after finishing the ceiling, he was back in the Sistine Chapel working on "The Last Judgment" |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
DJ |
ARTISTS |
1996-11-08 |
#2805 |
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He said he painted one of his masterpieces with his "beard turned up to heaven" |
Michelangelo
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FJ |
ART |
1996-10-11 |
#2785 |
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This Florentine sculptor's relief "Madonna of the Stairs" was completed in 1492 when he was 17 |
Michelangelo
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$100 |
J |
ART |
1996-09-27 |
#2775 |
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He was in his twenties when he sculpted the "Pieta" now in Saint Peter's Basilica |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
DJ |
ART & ARTISTS |
1996-07-15 |
#2751 |
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In 1546 Pope Paul III appointed this artist architect of St. Peter's Basilica |
Michelangelo
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$400 |
DJ |
ART |
1996-04-02 |
#2677 |
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A pieta now in the cathedral of Florence was originally meant for this artist's tomb |
Michelangelo
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$400 |
DJ |
ART |
1996-01-30 |
#2632 |
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When he was born in Caprese in 1475, his father, Lodovico Buonarroti, was the town's mayor |
Michelangelo
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$400 |
DJ |
ARTISTS |
1995-01-16 |
#2391 |
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Many people hated the sculptor Pietro Torrigiano for breaking this fellow Florentine artist's nose |
Michelangelo
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$600 |
DJ |
ARTISTS |
1995-01-02 |
#2381 |
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Sadly, he never completed his "Rondanini Pieta" |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
DJ |
ARTISTS |
1994-10-26 |
#2333 |
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His original David & 4 unfinished slaves are in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence |
Michelangelo
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$600 |
DJ |
ART & ARTISTS |
1994-07-08 |
#2285 |
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He had to delay finishing "The Last Judgment" for the Sistine Chapel after he fell from a scaffold |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
DJ |
ARTISTS |
1994-03-09 |
#2198 |
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In 1488 at age 13, this Florentine was apprenticed to Domenico Ghirlandaio |
Michelangelo
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$600 |
DJ |
ART |
1994-01-19 |
#2163 |
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He returned to Florence in 1501 as a big name; his Pieta for St. Peter's had made him famous |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
DJ |
ART |
1993-11-09 |
#2112 |
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For his sculpture of "David", he reused a large block of marble left unfinished some 40 years before |
Michelangelo
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$600 |
DJ |
ART |
1993-10-22 |
#2100 |
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A pieta in the Vatican is his only signed work |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
DJ |
ART |
1993-04-27 |
#2002 |
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His Sistine Chapel painting of "The Last Judgment" was unveiled to the public Christmas Day, 1541 |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
DJ |
ART |
1993-03-26 |
#1980 |
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He snuck a self-portrait into his "The Last Judgment" fresco in the Sistine Chapel |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
DJ |
ART |
1992-10-28 |
#1873 |
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T.S. Eliot wrote, "In the room the women come and go talking of" this artist |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
DJ |
ARTISTS |
1992-10-02 |
#1855 |
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To see his "The Creation of Adam", look up at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
DJ |
ARTISTS |
1991-07-16 |
#1602 |
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When we talk about his "Pieta", it could be the St. Peter's one, the Florence one, or the Rondanini one |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
DJ |
ART |
1991-06-21 |
#1585 |
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Like Sr. Buonarotti, this was Sr. Caravaggio's first name |
Michelangelo
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$600 |
DJ |
ARTISTS |
1991-02-14 |
#1494 |
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This artist originally planned for the statue seenhereto be the focal point of a tomb: |
Michelangelo
DD
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$1,000 |
DJ |
ARTISTS |
1991-02-08 |
#1490 |
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In 1505 he was recalled to Rome to make a tomb for the Renaissance Pope Julius II |
Michelangelo
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$1,000 |
DJ |
ARTISTS |
1990-08-25 |
#11 |
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He never finished his "Rondanini Pietà " |
Michelangelo
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$600 |
DJ |
ARTISTS |
1990-05-29 |
#1337 |
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In 1534 Pope Paul III named him painter, sculptor & architect of the Vatican Palace |
Michelangelo
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$400 |
DJ |
ART |
1989-11-27 |
#1206 |
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In return for film rights, Japanese TV is financing a 12-yr. project to clean this artist's Vatican frescoes |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
DJ |
ARTISTS |
1989-06-20 |
#1122 |
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He carved the "Florence Pietà " for his own tomb |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
DJ |
ART |
1989-04-07 |
#1070 |
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He said, "The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows," & proved it with his David |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
DJ |
ARTISTS |
1988-09-20 |
#927 |
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1st name shared by artists Caravaggio & Buonarroti |
Michelangelo
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$600 |
DJ |
ARTISTS |
1988-03-28 |
#831 |
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It was Pope Julius II who invited him to do a little something with the bare Sistine ceiling |
Michelangelo
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$400 |
DJ |
ART |
1986-12-19 |
#530 |
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From an 18' high damaged block of marble he carved his "David" |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
DJ |
ART |
1986-05-22 |
#444 |
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Though his last name was Buonarroti, this Italian artist is best known by just his first name |
Michelangelo
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$600 |
DJ |
ART |
1985-04-04 |
#149 |
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A detail from his "The Creation of Adam" was recreated for an "E.T." film ad |
Michelangelo
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$600 |
DJ |
ART |
1985-02-11 |
#111 |
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Pope Julius II ordered him to paint the Sistine Chapel |
Michelangelo
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$200 |
DJ |
ART |
1984-09-18 |
#7 |