MICHELANGELO
One of the most admired and successful artists of all time is
Michelangelo. Although he was born in Caprese, a small village near Arezzo,
Michelangelo grew up in Florence. His father was Ludovico Buonarroti, a
Florentine official with connections to the ruling Medici family. At the age of
thirteen, Michelangelo was placed as an apprentice in the workshop of
Domencio Ghirlandaio. He then studied at the scuplture school in the Medici
gardens. He was then invited into the Medici home where he met the two
Medici boys who would later become Popes Leo X and Clement VII.
Michelangelo produced two sculptures while in the House of Medici, the Battle
of the Centaurs and the Madonna on the Stairs, both of which were completed
between 1489 and 1492.
Michelangelo had several successes in his life of painting, architecture,
and sculpting. His first large-scale sculpture was Bacchus. Around the same
year of 1498, Michelangelo did the marble......
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