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Michelangelo's mother dies when he is only six.
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He was 13 years old. His father was very angry
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starts to study sculpture in the gardens of Lorenzo de’ Medici.
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Lorenzo de’ Medici dies and Michelangelo goes back to live with his impoverished father but soon returns to the Medici palace, invited by Lorenzo’s son Piero.
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Returned to Florence and carved "St. John the Baptist" and painted "The Sleeping Cupid"
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Back in Florence he sculpts a CUPID which is now lost and sells it to the art dealer Baldassare del Milanese, who in turn sells it as an antique work to a Roman Cardinal.
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1496-1501 Moved to Rome. Carved the Bacchus and the globally known, "Pietà"
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He produced it between 1501-1504. He used David as a model of heroic courage, in the hope that the Florentines would understand his message.
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website Finishes an easel painting, his only one that has survived, of the Holy Family
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The sculpture/ statue of David is set up in front of the Palazzo della Signoria or City Hall.
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Michelangelo starts to plan out and create this amzing piece of artwork.
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He begins the Florentine Pieta for his own tomb.
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Michelangelo's amazing achievement as an architect was his work at St. Peter's Basilica, where he was made number one architect in 1546.
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"As Vasari tells us, he made his will in three sentences, in front of his physician and his friends Tommaso Cavalieri and Daniele da Volterra, saying that he left "his soul to God, his body to the earth, and his material possessions to his nearest relations."
