Example sentences for: michelangelo

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

  • Despite the distraction of the constant crowds (quiet is requested), visitors seem to yield to the power of Michelangelo’s ceiling, and his Last Judgement (restored in 1994).

  • St. Peter’s Basilica is the largest of all Roman Catholic churches and by any standards a grandiose achievement, but it inevitably suffered from the competing visions of all the architects called in to collaborate — Bramante, Giuliano da Sangallo, Raphael, Baldassare Peruzzi, Michelangelo, Giacomo Della Porta, Domenico Fontana, and Carlo Maderno — each adding, subtracting, and modifying, often with a pope looking over his shoulder.

  • At the center of the School, Raphael is believed to have given the red-coated Plato the features of Leonardo da Vinci, while portraying Michelangelo as the thoughtful Heraclitus, seated in the foreground.

  • Ghirlandaio’s 13-year-old apprentice — Michelangelo Buonarroti — must have picked up a few tips for his future commission of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

  • The viewer goes around and around the free-standing frame to see just how Michelangelo did it.


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