Example sentences for: michelangelo

How can you use “michelangelo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Michelangelo's metamorphic wit, somewhere between the nightmare transformations of his fellow Florentine Dante Alighieri and the baroque fantasies of Lorenzo Bernini, is nowhere better displayed than in his famous drawing of Phaëthon's fall.

  • Michelangelo said the latter, facing the Duomo, were good enough to adorn the entrance to heaven and they have been known ever since as the Doors of Paradise.

  • The marble that Michelangelo chose for his Moses and Pietà is now hewn, at $3,000 a cubic meter, for replicas at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, tombstones in the Los Angeles Forest Lawn cemetery, and countless homes of oil-rich sheiks.

  • Intended for St. Peter’s Basilica as part of Michelangelo’s botched project for Pope Julius II’s tomb, the statue of the great biblical figure sits in awesome majesty.

  • •1508–1512Michelangelo paints Sistine Chapel ceiling


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