![]() ![]() Michelangelo’s status among Italian patrons grew quickly, and his work was in high demand. The inspiring lessons and techniques that Michelangelo acquired from other Renaissance painters helped him become a great artist - and, more to the point, a great artistic visionary in his time. Zollner, in his acute description of Michelangelo’s early drawings and sketches, writes that they “perfectly mirror the periodization of art history described” by da Vinci, but “arose less out of the study of nature than from the imitation of earlier and contemporary masters: Giotto, Masaccio and Schongauer’s engraving.” To be sure, all artists learn, grow and develop in different ways. ![]() He apprenticed with the Renaissance painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, a “particularly suitable teacher” who was “executing monumental fresco cycles in Florence and who also contributed to the first phase of decorations for the Sistine Chapel.” Mr. ![]()
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