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(Warning for those that might want to shield their children or themselves - there is nudity in the works of art I've selected and showcased below)
Michelangelo (full name: Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni) was born March 6, 1475, in Caprese, Italy, and died in 1564. He was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.
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Wikipedia article on Michelangelo
Michelangelo.com
The Digital Michelangelo project - a group developing a way to scan Michelangelo's sculpture to represent it digitally in 3-D. Some interesting photos and video clips.
A page of Michelangelo links from Artcyclopedia
Olga's Gallergy of Michelangelo an extensive image gallergy, including some nice detail pictures of famous works.
Stay tuned for the images! I'm sure I won't be able to stop at four.  
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Thought I'd make a separate post just for the Sistine Chapel Ceiling. I can't do it justice by copying/pasting here, so I'm going to link you to the Vatican Museum Website, where you can click on various parts of the ceiling to zoom in for better detail.
The Vatican Museum's Sistine Chapel page
Editing to add - Olga's Gallergy also has many detail images of the Chapel ceiling. I'll chose one to show below:
The Creation of Adam. 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican
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David. 1501-1504. Marble. Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy
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Pieta. 1499. Marble. St. Peter's, Vatican
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The Holy Family with the infant St. John the Baptist (the Doni Tondo)
c. 1503-05 (130 Kb); Tempera on panel, Diameter 120 cm (47 in); Uffizi, Florence
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Madonna of the Stairs. c.1490. Marble. Casa Buonarroti, Florence, Italy
I'm going to stop here - have fun ladies, gentlemen, and children! Let the study begin!
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I found this book at another HSer's house yesterday. Michelangelo. It has pretty long text for littles, but I'm sure you could take it in chunks.
Also, one of the kids told me that when they studied Michelangelo, they had taped paper to the bottom of a table and tried painting that way. The amount of paint that ended up on her made quite an impression. 
I've never read The Agony and the Ecstasy, but I remember a friend in high school raving about it.
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Thanks so much, Amy. They look great. Here I am one who recommended "David," then when this big image is staring at you from the screen -  . We are going to be at my parents' house the next two weeks and they have a David statue so am glad we are including it. He ("the statue") has an interesting family history at our house so the kid's will learn some family history, too.
Some children's biographies we picked up to read (in addition to the Stanley one mentioned by Rachel)
Famous Children - Michelangelo
Venezia's Michelangelo
and a picture book - Michelangelo's Surprise
Based on true story of the artist being summoned to Medici's palazzo to sculpt a snowman. For anyone who may still get some snowfall in March, this would be a fun thing for the kids to try to do.
MaryAnn Kohl's Great Artists book has two Michelangelo activities. One is like what Rachel mentioned - painting while on your back under a table. The other is to do a "fresco" painting in wet plaster (of paris). Here is a art activity site which shares similar ideas.
This is a great interactive website for studying the Sistine Chapel ceiling. When you click on an image on the left - that section is magnified on the right and includes a detailed explanation/study of that section. Very interesting and excellent for the art study aspect.
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MaryM wrote:
Some children's biographies we picked up to read (in addition to the Stanley one mentioned by Rachel)
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There is a DVD of this that we got from the library and it is HYSTERICAL!!!!! We have watched it FIVE TIMES already and is the video of choice right now!!! Are they all funny like this?? And, are there more DVDs that exist for ALL of Venezia's biographies? I'm having a hard time finding others.
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SuzanneG wrote:
| There is a DVD of this that we got from the library and it is HYSTERICAL!!!!! We have watched it FIVE TIMES already and is the video of choice right now!!! Are they all funny like this?? And, are there more DVDs that exist for ALL of Venezia's biographies? I'm having a hard time finding others. |
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There are dvds for many of the biographies - see them here at Mike Venezia's website. They do generally have the same humorous tone.
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Wonderful!
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MaryM wrote:
SuzanneG wrote:
| There is a DVD of this that we got from the library and it is HYSTERICAL!!!!! We have watched it FIVE TIMES already and is the video of choice right now!!! Are they all funny like this?? And, are there more DVDs that exist for ALL of Venezia's biographies? I'm having a hard time finding others. |
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Rats, our library only has Da Vinci. Thanks for the info, Mary, and Suzanne for bumping it up.
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