by diego chenoweth. who is michelangelo michelangelo was born march 6,1475 in caprese, italy he...

MICHELANGELO DI LODOVICO BUONARROTI SIMONI

By Diego Chenoweth

Who is Michelangelo

Michelangelo was born March 6,1475 in Caprese, Italy

He was a painter, sculptor, architect, and a poet

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Education Michelangelo was

less interested in being educated.

He would be more attracted to watch painters and would like to draw himself.

He was an apprentice to a painter than began to study sculpture under the Medici Family

Medici Chapel

Background Info

Mother (Francesca Neri) died at age of six.

Father was involved with banking Father(Leonardo di Buonarrota Simoni)

born in Florence, Italy At age 12, Michelangelo became an

apprentice to Domenico Ghirlandajo

Where he lived

When he was first born, Michelangelo moved to Florence while still an infant

When he was older, he moved and lived in Rome, Italy

Rome, Italy

Major Works One of Michelangelo's

First most famous Works was the “Pieta”

This sculpture was of Mary holding the dead Jesus in her lap

This is renaissance art because of it involving religion, its realistic, they are clothed

Pieta

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