Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born on March 6, 1475 in Caprese.(Today Caprese is known as Michelangelo.)He is an Italian painter architect,poet,sculptor,and engineer.For several generations his family has been bankers. Michelangelo’s father sent him to study grammar with the humanist Francesco da Urbino. Between 1493-1494 he bought a block of marble for a larger than  life statue of Hercules,which was sent to France and subsequently disappeared. Michelangelo arrived in Rome on June 25,1496. At the age of 21 on July 4th of the same year he began to work on a commission for cardinal Baffaelebiario. He was a attracted to drawing men.He painted sistine chapel he would hang on the celling. It took him 4 years and it was 12,000 square feet long.The painting was the story in the bible. Michelangelo died on Feb.18,1564 and every body was sad.
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