Michelangelo's Earliest Known Painting Created at Age 12 or 13
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Summary
The article discusses Michelangelo's earliest known painting, 'The Torment of Saint Anthony,' which he created at age 12 or 13 in the late 1480s. The painting depicts the religious subject of Saint Anthony being tormented by demons and shows remarkable technical skill for such a young artist. The work demonstrates Michelangelo's early artistic development and provides insight into his formative years before he became one of the most celebrated Renaissance artists.
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· 3 pulledThink back, if you will, to the works of art you created at age twelve or thirteen. For many, perhaps most of us, our output at that stage of adolescence amounted to directionless doodles, chaotic comics, and a few unsteady-at-best school projects.
But then, most of us didn't grow up to be Michelangelo.
In the late fourteen-eighties, when that towering Renaissance artist was still what we would now call a 'tween,' he painted The Torment of Saint Anthony, a depiction of the titular religious figure.
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