Michelangelo Buonarotti
Michelangelo Buonarotti was one of the main artists of the Renaissance period in Italy. Michelangelo was born in 1475 in Caprese but was raised in Florence, home of many masterpieces of Renaissance art and architecture. Michelangelo was a painter, sculptor, and architect. He started his career at 13 years old studying arts with his master Urbino. Michelangelo achieved fame early; two of his best-known works, the Pietà and David, were sculpted before the age of thirty. Although he did not consider himself a painter, Michelangelo created two of the most influential frescoes in the history of Western art one of which was the "Creation of Adam" scene in the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The city of Florence was at that time Italy's greatest center of the arts and learning. Art was sponsored by the town council, the merchant guilds, and wealthy patrons such as the Medici family and their banking associates. Most of Michelangelo's masterpieces were sponsored by rich families and popes of the period. Michelangelo lived many years and died in Rome in 1564 at 89 years old, a long life for the period he lived in, he never got married or had kids because of his homosexuality. Michelangelo was a painter, sculptor, and architect. Most of his masterpieces were sponsored by rich families and popes of the period.
Michelangelo's most iconic masterpieces are:
The Statue of David, in the Galleria Museum in Florence. David was one of the first sculpture works Michelangelo did. The perfection of the statue impressed the Florentines when it got ready and became a symbol of the Florentine people which reflected their morals and strength to defeat powerful enemies.
"The Creation of Adam" fresco painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. One of the many compositions made by Michelangelo in the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, this work shows God reaching to Adam.
The "Vatican Pieta" statue made of marble for the Vatican shows Mary holding the lifeless Jesus' body.
Florence's (Capital of Tuscany - Italy) most famous monuments:
Ponte Vecchio and Cathedral of Santa Maria
Rome's Coliseum and the Vatican
Italian Restaurants
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Final Considerations:
Between all the logos, I've decided to to Florence's Cathedral and the Pizza Over ambiguous positive form with fragmentation that composes the form of the cathedral and an oven. Of all of the ideas this one resonated more with the theme of Michelangelo and the name of the restaurant "Creation of Pizza" which also makes an allusion to Michelangelo's most famous painting "Creation of Adam." I didn't want to choose obvious things of painters to represent Michelangelo, so I decided to stick to Italian famous buildings. I faced some struggles in making both symbols recognizable, mainly because Florence's Cathedral is not as famous as other Italian monuments. I also struggled at trying to make everything symmetrical since it's a building and there's some perspective to the building's walls with windows, because the shape of the building is an octagon in real life, and the perspective added some more interesting appeal to it. I transformed the middle wall into a part of the oven's structure to create even more ambiguity instead of just an oven in the middle of a building, and transformed the top of the cathedral into a chimney, completing the ambiguity I imagined for my logo. I've also used the color pallet to an actual picture of Florence's Cathedral using adobe color to give the final touches to the logo actually look like a cathedral