MICHELANGELO
- Michelangelo di lodovico Buoanarroti Simoni (MArch 6,1475- febraury 18, 1564), he was born al Caprease , a little village in The Republic of Florence , Italy.
Michelangelo was an ilatian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet who exerted an unparalleled influence on the developmnet of western art.
When Michelangelo was 13 years old, he entered the workshop of Damenico Ghirlandio.
He came under the influence of Mosaccio, because his teacher, Ghirladaio, not only looked to Mosaccio for ideas on religious scenes, but actually imitated certaisn elements of this designs. After less than a year he moved to the academy set up by Lorenzo the Magnificent.
From 1489 till 1492, he lived in the Polazzo Medicini in via Larga, where he could study "antique and good statues" and could meet the sophisticated humanists and writers of the Mecidi circle.
These are some of his most important works:
Statue of David: 1501-1504
Sixtine chapel ceiling: 1508-1512
Crucifix: 1497-1498
Pietà: 1499-1500
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