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I am typing this paper over Michelangelo, one of the most famous artist ever! He had one of the greatest paintings called The Sixteen Chapels. I am going to tell you about the life he went through. Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475 in Caprease, Italy. His father is Leonardo Di Buonarrota Simoni. He did not have a mother because she had passed of illness. His father enrolled him in a grammar school with the famous Humanist teacher Frances-co da Urbino, but Michelangelo was unimpressed with scholastic, and instead chose to spend his time among the great works of art and architecture throughout Florence. Some of Michelangelo’s most life changing experiences were, his mother passing, Michelangelo leaves Ghirlandaio’s workshop and starts to study sculpture in the gardens of Lorenzo de Medici. He lives at the ducal palace for three years in the company of the learned Humanists and sculpts his first works (marble reliefs): THE MADONNA OF THE STAIRS and the BATTLE OF THE CENTAURS in 1498. Michelangelo is called to Rome to build a tomb for Pope Julius II. Then he spends nine months in …show more content…

Michelangelo was less interested in school than watching the painters at nearby churches. Michelangelo's dad found out that Michelangelo didn't have interests in the family financial business. So he agreed to apprentice him at the age of 13, to the fashionable Florentine painter's workshop. Michelangelo was there at the workshop for only a year when an extraordinary opened up to him. At the recommendation of Ghirlandio, he moved into the palace of Flourintine ruler Lorenzo the Magnificent, of the powerful Medici family, to study classical sculpture in the Medici Gardens. He was there from 1489, to 1492. ring 1499 -1501, Michelangelo was asked to complete an unfinished project that was started 40 years earlier by Agostino di Duccio. It was the “Statue of

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