Michelangelo, A Biography

Michelangelo was born in 1475 in a small village of Caprese near Arezzo At the age of 13 michelangelo’s father Ludovico Buonarroti placed michelangelo in the workshop of the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio through connections with the ruling Medici family. About two years later michelangelo studied at the sculpture school in the Medici gardens. Shortly thereafter he was invited into the household of the Magnincent, Lorenzo de’Medici. Where he had an oppertunity to converse with younger Medici, which later became pope Leo X. As he was also introduced to humanists as Marsilio Ficino and the poet Politian, who were frequent visiters.

After about two years, Michelangelo studied at the sculpture school in the Medici gardens and shortly thereafter was invited into the household of Lorenzo de’ Medici. He became acquainted with such humanists as Marsilio Ficino and the poet Politian, who were frequent visitors. Michelangelo produced at least two sculptures by the time he was 16 years old, the Battle of the Centaurs and the Madonna of the Stairs. This shows that he had achieved a personal style at a very early age. His patron Lorenzo died in 1492, two years later Michelangelo fled Florence, when the Medici family was temporarily expelled.

He was studying to be a goldsmith for a year or two when he saw a painting called, "Trinity Fresco" by Masaccio. He decided he wanted to paint just like him. He also met artists that had changed from being goldsmiths to artists, so he agreed with his family that he should be doing art. He then changed his professional plans and went to Fra Filippo Lippi in Prato, who was a professional painter, one of the most famous painters in Florence. After 3 years of hard work, Botticelli and his inspiring teacher worked together and in 1465, Botticelli started his first piece of work under the supervision of his teacher.

In it, Leonardo shows for the first time his method of organizing figures into a pyramid shape, so that interest is focused on the principal subject. This project was interrupted when Leonardo left Florence for Milan about 1482. Leonardo worked for Duke Lodovico Sforza in Milan for nearly 18 years. Although he was still an artist, painting portraits, he began to become interested in the mechanic and scientific field. But these interests did not stop him from completing his most famous work, The last supper.

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.

While he was at Medici, he stayed with Lorenzo’s sons in a fancy part of Florence, Italy. At this time, he was introduced to poet, Politian. When Lorenzo died, Michelangelo stayed home and studied anatomy. Soon after, he sculpted a marble Hercules, which was taken to Fontainebleau and has disappeared since. ( Michelangelo Buonarroti,2) During the artists’ sculpting, he managed to create a sculpture called the “Virgin and Child”, which was also known as the “Madonna and Child.” This sculpture took 3 years to make, it started in 1501 to 1504.

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni better known as Michelangelo is one of the greatest artistic geniuses of the Italian Renaissance or that every lived for that matter, some of his works include his sculpture of David, ceiling paintings of the Sistine chapel, and also the Pieta. Michelangelo was born in Caprese, Italy in 1475 to Leonardo di Buonarrota Simoni and Francesca Neri. During the time of his birth Michelangelo’s father was a magistrate in the town of Caprese but moved his family to Florence shortly after the birth of Michelangelo. Years after their departure to Florence his mother became gravely ill which resulted in Michelangelo being placed to live with a stonecutter and his family in Settignano, his mother later succumb to her illness. Later Michelangelo was sent to Florence for school but was more interested in art, seeing this Michelangelo’s father decided the enroll him in Florentines painters workshop to start his apprenticeship there he worked under the Francesco da Urbino.

When she became ill,a family of stonecutters took him in. During his teenage years, he became an apprentice to a famous painter named Domenico Ghirlandaio, before studying in the sculpture gardens of the Medici family. He spent time with Lorenzo de’ Medici, otherwise known as the Magnificent, the ruler of Florentine, from 1489 to 1492 learning about classical sculptures. This gave him an opportunity to interact

He paved the way for artists in future generations, by setting an example of artistic excellence. What set Michelangelo’s work apart was his ability to articulate emotion and detail which was unparalleled by prior artists. Michelangelo was born in Caprese, Florence on the 6th of March, 1475. Michelangelo was born into a family of higher status. His family owned a bank that went back many generations.

Michelangelo became an artist’s apprentice at the age of thirteen. Since Michelangelo had obvious talent, Lorenzo de’Medici took him in. For two years he lived in the Medici palace where he was taught by the sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni and studied all of the Medici art collection. Michelangelo traveled to Bologna and Rome, where he completed many works. His most important and famous work was the Pieta.