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By Diego Chenoweth. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni. 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.
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By Diego Chenoweth Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
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
THE END • http://www.biography.com/people/michelangelo-9407628 • http://arthistory.about.com/cs/namesmm/a/michelangelo.htm