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The same day, his father noted down: "Today March 6, 1475, a child of the male sex has been born to me and I have named him Michelangelo. He was born on Monday between 4 and 5 in the morning, at Caprese, where I am the Podestà."
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There is no specific date for the death, only that it occured when he was 6 years old
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He was 13 years old. His father was enraged
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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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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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Working high above the chapel floor, on scaffolding, Michelangelo painted, some of the finest pictorial images of all time.
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He starts working on it and making preparations for it.
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"After the pope's death, on September 25, 1534, and only two days after Michelangelo's arrival in Rome, his successor, Paul III Farnese confirmed the commission to Michelangelo, and in April 1535 scaffolding was put up in front of the altar wall"
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Vittoria Colonna was a poetess and highly cultivated woman who was one of the most influential figures in the Viterbo Circle
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The largest fresco of the Renaissance, it depicts Judgment Day.
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Michelangelo's crowning achievement as an architect was his work at St. Peter's Basilica, where he was made chief 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."
