新世纪英语高一Unit2课文（速）

是讲米开朗基罗的
Michelangelo
Michelangelo was an Italian artist about 500 years ago. Today he is still remembered as a great sculptor, painter, and architect.
Michelangelo, who came from a poor family, was trained at an early age like any other craftsman in Italy. At thirteen, he started to work and learn in a workshop which belonged to one of the leading masters of the time. In the workshop Michelangelo was able to learn all the skills of sculpture. But he wasn’t satisfied, and went out to study the work of the great masters of the past. Michelangelo worked hard to master one problem after another. By the time he was thirty, he was generally regarded as one of the outstanding sculptors of the age.
In 1508, Michelangelo was given a task —— to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. At first, he did all he could to turn down this job, saying that he was not really a painter, but a sculptor. But finally he was made to accept it. He then shut himself up in the chapel, let no one come near him, and got ready to work alone.
It took him four years to complete the paintings on the ceiling. And it was difficult for any ordinary person to imagine what Michelangelo endured in these four years of hard and lonely work. Michelangelo, while working, had to lie on his back and paint. In fact, he became so used to looking upward that when he received a letter during this period, he had to hold it over his head to read it. Finally, the paintings were completed. The great and chapel have ever since become a fascination to people in Italy and tourists from all over the world.
Michelangelo left us with a great number of sculptures and paintings. Today his works are still examples from which art students must learn, and visitors to such tourist attractions still can’t help but admire them.
米开朗琪罗
米开朗基罗是意大利艺术家约500年前。今天，他还没有忘记作为一个伟大的雕塑家，画家和建筑师。
米开朗基罗，谁从一个贫穷的家庭来，受训于像任何其他工匠在意大利从小。 13岁，他开始工作和学习的研讨会是属于对当时的领导大师之一。在这次研讨会上米开朗基罗能够学会所有的雕刻技巧。但他不满足，走出门去，研究过去的大师工作。米开朗基罗努力掌握一个又一个难关。到他30岁时，他被普遍看作是时代的优秀雕塑家之一。
在1508年，米开朗基罗被赋予的任务-绘制西斯廷教堂的天花板。起初，他做了所有他可以拒绝这份工作，说他不是一个真正的画家，而是一个雕塑家。但最后他被接受。然后，他关在教堂自己，让他身边没有人来，来，准备单独工作。
他花了4年时间完成在天花板上的画。它是任何困难，一般人想象米开朗基罗在艰苦和孤独的工作，这四年的痛苦。米开朗基罗，边工作，已经趴在他的背部和油漆。事实上，他变得如此用来寻找向上，当他在此期间收到的信中，他举行了他的头它来阅读。最后，绘画完成。伟大和教堂的人从那时起成为来自世界各地的魅力在意大利和游客的人。
米开朗基罗留下了雕塑和绘画的伟大数字。今天，他的作品仍事例，对艺术的学生必须学习，这些旅游景点的游客不能不佩服他们。