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Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese, Italy.
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In 1489, at the age of 14, Michelangelo entered a sculpting contest. Michelangelo's work was so beautiful that he won! So Michelangelo became apprenticed to Lorenzo De Medici, where he got to work with some of the greatest artists and philosophers of the time.
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Michelangelo finished making the Pieta, a sculpture of Mary holding dead Jesus on her lap, in 1499.
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Michelangelo finished making the David, a sculpture of the boy who fought the giant Goliath, in 1504.
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Michelangelo started this painting in 1508, and after 4 years of backbreaking work, he finally finished a painting with over 300 figures in it!
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Michelangelo died on February 14, 1564, in Rome,Italy at the age of 89.
