Michelangelo for Kids: His Life and Ideas, with 21 Activities

Michelangelo for Kids: His Life and Ideas, with 21 Activities (63) (For Kids series)

Michelangelo Buonarrotiâ€”known simply as Michelangeloâ€”has been called the greatest artist who has ever lived. His impressive masterpieces astonished his contemporaries and remain some of todayâ€™s most famous artworks. Young readers will come to know Michelangelo the man as well as the artistic giant, following his life from his childhood in rural Italy to his emergence as a rather egotistical teenager to a humble and caring old man. Theyâ€™ll learn that he did exhausting, back-breaking labor to create his art yet worked well, even with humor, with others in the stone quarry and in his workshop. Michelangelo for Kids offers an in-depth look at his life, ideas, and accomplishments, while providing a fascinating view of the Italian Renaissance and how it shaped and affected his work.Â

Budding artists will come to appreciate Michelangeloâ€™s techniques and understand exactly what made his work so great. Twenty-one creative, fun, hands-on activities illuminate Michelangeloâ€™s various artistic mediums as well as the era in which he lived.Â Kids can:Â make homemade paint,Â learn the cross-hatching technique used by Michelangelo,Â make an antique statue,Â build a model fortification,Â compose a Renaissance-style poem,Â and much more.
Country USA
Brand Chicago Review Press
Manufacturer Chicago Review Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781613731932
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Chicago Review Press
Manufacturer	Chicago Review Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Illustrated
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781613731932
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Michelangelo for Kids: His Life and Ideas, with 21 Activities (63) (For Kids series)

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