Before Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel he did other beautiful works of art. First Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti was born on March 6, 1475 in Caprese, Tuscany. His mother had died when he was six, and his father was serving for the Florentine government agent (Orleans). It must have been hard for a boy so young to lose his mother but that doesn’t stop him from becoming anything but incredibly talented. After Michelangelo finished school he was apprenticed at the age of thirteen to Domencio Ghirlandio (Orleans). Domencio Ghirlandio was one of the most stylish painters in Florence (Orleans). Michelangelo must have been a really good sculptor and painter for him to apprentice, at the age of thirteen, with one of the best painters of Florence. Michelangelo had originally got his fame from him being a sculptor (“Italian”). He painted sculptors of Pieta and David. He was one of the best sculptors of the Italian Renaissance. One quote by Michelangelo says, ‘“The greater danger for most of us …show more content…
He was first an amazing sculptor and he didn’t even like to paint. Then he goes and paints these awe-inspiring frescoes which are so hard to paint and blows the minds of people. Michelangelo dominated the fifteenth century with his abilities. Millions worldwide travel to the Sistine Chapel to its unimaginable, breathtaking beauty. It has and always will be quite a masterpiece. As Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti says, “Genius is eternal