Michelangelo

By clairerebecca
  • Mar 6, 1475

    Michelangelo's Birth

    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."
  • Period: Mar 6, 1475 to Feb 18, 1564

    Michelangelo

  • Jan 30, 1481

    Michelangelo's Mother Died

    There is no specific date for the death, only that it occured when he was 6 years old
  • Jan 30, 1488

    Michelangelo begins apprenticing with painter Domenico Ghirlandaio

    He was 13 years old. His father was enraged
  • Jan 30, 1501

    Michelangelo creates David, the marble statue.

    Michelangelo creates David, the marble statue.
    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.
  • Period: Jan 31, 1501 to Jan 31, 1504

    Michelangelo creates the marble statue David

    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.
  • Period: Jan 31, 1508 to Jan 31, 1512

    The Sistine Chapel Ceiling

    Working high above the chapel floor, on scaffolding, Michelangelo painted, some of the finest pictorial images of all time.
  • May 30, 1508

    The Sistine Chapel Ceiling

    He starts working on it and making preparations for it.
  • Jan 31, 1534

    Michelangelo left Florence forever

  • Sep 25, 1534

    The Pope died

    "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"
  • Period: Jan 31, 1538 to Jan 31, 1547

    Sonnets and madrigals that Michelangelo wrote for Vittoria Colonna

    Vittoria Colonna was a poetess and highly cultivated woman who was one of the most influential figures in the Viterbo Circle
  • Jan 31, 1541

    "The Last Judgment" was complete

    "The Last Judgment" was complete
    The largest fresco of the Renaissance, it depicts Judgment Day.
  • Jan 31, 1546

    St. Peter's Basilica

    St. Peter's Basilica
    Michelangelo's crowning achievement as an architect was his work at St. Peter's Basilica, where he was made chief architect in 1546.
  • Feb 18, 1564

    Michelangelo Buonarroti died

    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."