what inspired michelangelo?
Lorenzo de' Medici Domenico Ghirlandaio Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Girolamo Savonarola Melozzo da Forlì
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 Michelangelo was the artistic heir to the great 15th @-@ century sculptors and painters of Florence . He learnt his trade first under the direction of a masterly fresco painter , Domenico Ghirlandaio , known for two great fresco cycles in the Sassetti Chapel and Tornabuoni Chapel , and for his contribution to the cycle of paintings on the walls of the Sistine Chapel . As a student Michelangelo studied and drew from the works of the two most renowned Florentine fresco painters of the early Renaissance , Giotto and Masaccio . Masaccio 's figures of Adam and Eve being expelled from the Garden of Eden had a profound effect on the depiction of the nude in general , and in particular on the use of the nude figure to convey human emotion . Helen Gardner says that in the hands of Michelangelo " the body is simply the manifestation of the soul , or of a state of mind and character " . 

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 Michelangelo 's depiction of the Genealogy of Jesus departs from an artistic tradition for this topic that was common in medieval times , especially in stained @-@ glass windows . This so @-@ called Jesse Tree shows Jesse lying prone and a tree growing from his side with the ancestors on each branch , in a visual treatment of a biblical verse . 

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 The composition is , most likely , partially influenced by the cartoon ( term referring to a two @-@ dimensional preliminary drawing ) for Leonardo da Vinci ’ s The Virgin and Child with St. Anne . Like this earlier ' cartoon ' , Michelangelo ’ s figures seem to be compacted into very little pictorial space and a similar bilaterally symmetrical triangular composition is employed . Michelangelo saw the drawing in 1501 while in Florence working on the David . 

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 Michelangelo wrote a poem describing the arduous conditions under which he worked 

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 " The Sun " — Success . Joy . – Creation of the Sun and Moon by Michelangelo . 
