MICHELANGELO DI LODOVICO BUONARROTI SIMONI

By Diego Chenoweth

Who is Michelangelo Michelangelo was born March 6,1475 in

Caprese, Italy He was a painter, sculptor, architect, and

a poet

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Education Michelangelo was

less interested in being educated.

He would be more attracted to watch painters and would like to draw himself.

He was an apprentice to a painter than began to study sculpture under the Medici Family

Medici Chapel

Background Info Mother (Francesca Neri) died at age of

six. Father was involved with banking Father(Leonardo di Buonarrota Simoni)

born in Florence, Italy At age 12, Michelangelo became an

apprentice to Domenico Ghirlandajo

Where he lived When he was first born, Michelangelo

moved to Florence while still an infant When he was older, he moved and lived

in Rome, Italy

Rome, Italy

Major Works One of Michelangelo's

First most famous Works was the “Pieta”

This sculpture was of Mary holding the dead Jesus in her lap

This is renaissance art because of it involving religion, its realistic, they are clothed

Pieta

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