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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See bar.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A 15th and 16th century Italian artist, full name Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Michelangelo Buonarroti, renowned Italian painter, sculptor and architect; 1475-1564.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. Florentine sculptor and painter and architect; one of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance (1475-1564)

Etymologies

  1. Italian Michele + Angelo, referring to Michael the Archangel. (Wiktionary)

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  • “Answers Why is michelangelo so important to history Michelangelo is important because his work represented the rebirth of the pursuit of art and culture in the Western World.”

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  • Michelangelo is probably the result of cross-pollination between Donatello and some other chile I own. on August 6, 2009 at 6: 52 pm | Reply wererabbits”

    Gardening update, 2009-08-02 « Were rabbits

  • “As so often in Bronzino's work, Michelangelo is co-opted.”

    The Guardian: Bronzino's Medici portraits – review

  • “Jake became infatuated with entertainment as a child due to "The Dick Van Dyke Show," the work of Don Knotts (he REALLY wanted to be a cartoon fish) and Michelangelo from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.”

    Jake Lloyd | Fandomania

  • “Although Michelangelo is responsible for the design and execution of the Sistine Chapel, the mind-bogglingly complex intellectual scheme underpinning the entire room was developed by the Neopythagorean Renaissance philosopher, Marsilio Ficino.”

    Boing Boing

  • “Even during his own time, they called Michelangelo “Il Divino”—the Divine One.”

    Simon & Schuster: Unpretty

  • “One discusses the role that drawing played in Michelangelo's career, and the other talks about what is real and what is fake from the Michelangelo drawings.”

    March 2006

  • “OK, so I've been saying for a while that I'm going to write an international thriller in which Michelangelo is found to have hidden a secret message in the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or something.”

    Archive 2006-08-01

  • “Watching the play puts you in mind of the way Michelangelo is reputed to have created his statue of David: Wilson takes a mountain of words and meticulously cuts away the extraneous matter, releasing the play from its source.”

    Previous article | Living the Liminal

  • “Are you altogether unconscious of the magic of the name of Michelangelo?”

    Simon & Schuster: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

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