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>People stopped doing paintings like Michelangelo did Seems to me most people never started doing paintings like Michelangelo did, most likely because they wer

• hk__2 4y ago
  > Seems to me most people never started doing paintings like Michelangelo did, most likely because they were not capable and recognized their own limitations. It’s a bit more complicated; Michelangelo was not a random artist painting alone in his workshop and you wouldn’t have been able to do what he did just because you were technically able. He was active durant the High Renaissance (like Raffaello and Leonardo), a period that ended with the Sack of Rome and the end of the Republic of Florence. It’s not that you couldn’t do it after him, it’s that the conditions that allowed him (and Raffaello, Leonardo and others) to do what he did were gone.