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Hello I am Mary, from of Michelangelo’s famous sculptures called the “Pieta”. Today I am going to talk to you about the “Father and Master of All the Arts”, Michelangelo. Michelangelo born in 1474 in Italy, was a famous painter, architect, poet, and sculptor during the Italian Renaissance. When Michelangelo was 13 his father agreed to let him be an apprentice in the Florentine painter’s workshop. After only a year in the workshop Michelangelo got invited to study classical sculpture in the Medici Gardens. During his time at the gardens he was exposed to many famous poets, scholars, and humanists. All of these things laid the foundation to his distinctive style. Michelangelo continued to work in Bologna, then he went back to Florence to

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