Michelangleo: Biography of a Talented Artist

Michelangelo: Biography of a Talented Artist

During the dates 1475-1564 there were many famous painters working all around the world. One of which was Michelangelo. He painted and sculpted many famous items that are still talked about today. Michelangelo led a very busy life, as of which you will be reading about today. 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 magnificent, Lorenzo de'Medici. Here he had an opportunity to converse with younger Medici, which later became Pope Leo X. He was also introduced to humanists as Marsilio Ficino and the poet Politian, who were frequent visitors. By the age of 16 Michelangelo had produced two relief sculptures, the battle of the Centaurs and the Madonna of the stairs,