Michelangelo Biography

Michelangelo is one of the most famous artists to ever live. He was known as a sculptor, painter, architect, and poet. He lived during the time of the Italian Renaissance in 1475-1564. He was born in Caprese, Italy which was a tiny village nearby the city-state of Florence, and his Dad was the mayor. He went to school, but focused on art rather than education. As a young child he was fascinated by all of the painters and sculptors. When he was 13 his father let him work for the Ghirlandajo Brothers who were well-known Florentine painters. Though working for them he wasn’t satisfied because they refused to tell him their art secrets.

In 1496 Michelangelo was in Rome for the first time. There he was in the direction to carve the Pietá. When
He worked on a Scaffold 60 feet above the ground and covered 10,000 square feet of surface. Mostly, he would lay on his back in a tight squeezed position and paint. He could not repaint mistakes and he painted the whole ceiling himself. The nine main paintings reflect on the story of Genesis from the Creation of the Flood. Other scenes show the ancestry of Christ, with moments in Bible history, and the Hebrew prophets and Pagan gods hoping for good the world was to become. It was majestic in every detail. More than 20 years after the Sistine Chapel was finished he began his huge fresco The Last Judgement.

Painting and Sculpting weren’t the only things Michelangelo was good at, he had many great talents. When Florence was in danger of attack, he super intended fortification. He also wrote lots of sonnets in strength of their beauty recall his work of marble. Many of the were written in old age for Vittoria Colonna, a lady who was very smart and pretty. In his later years of life, he designed the dome in St. Peter's basilica in Rome. Which was named the best architectural achievement of the Italian