Michelangelo was a painter, sculptor, and architect from the seventeenth century. He was born in Caprese, Italy on March 6, 1475. After the death of his mother, he and his wife and children moved in with a stonecutter, which is one reason of getting Michelangelo started with sculpting. At age fourteen, Michelangelo was an apprentice to Domenico Ghirlandaio in painting and Bertoldo di Giovanni in sculpting. Michelangelo sculpted Madonna of the Steps and Battle of the Centaurs between the years 1490- and 1492. The masterpiece of his early years was the Pietá for St. Peter’s. Between 1501 and 1504 he sculpted the Statue of David in Florence. In the years after 1519, he designed the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica. He died on February 18, 1564. Michelangelo is considered one of the greatest artists of European art and one of the founders of the Italian Renaissance.
The statue of David is one of many of Michelangelo’s well-known masterpieces. He created the Statue of......
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