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Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475 as the second of five brothers in Florence, but his mother, Francesca Neri, was too sick and frail to nurse him, so he was placed with a family of stone cutters.
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Michelangelo enraged his father when he told him that he agreed to apprentice in Domenico Ghirlandaio's workshop
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Michelangelo produced his first relief sculptures, Battle of the Centaurs and the Madonna of the Stairs, when he was 16 years old
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Michelangelo went to Rome to examine many classical statues and ruins, and produced his first large-scale sculpture, the statue of Bacchus
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Michelangelo did the marble Pieta (1498 - 1500) and finished it before 25 years old.
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This is when Michelangelo's artworks reached its peaks. The statue expressed the difficult time that Florence was in during that time.
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After years of confusion, a new republic was formed in which Michelangelo supports. This is the first time Michelangelo get engaged and expressed his own political orientation
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Julius II's ultimate power and his role as a patron put light on many famous artists in Florence, including Michelangelo
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Michelangelo was summoned back to rome by Julius II and had a commission for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
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Michelangelo painted some of the finest artworks of all time.
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Both Statues are famous statues from Julius II's tomb in which Michelangelo had created along with the other 40 figures
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Due to extreme pressue from the painting of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo uncovered it on August 1511 before it was even finished
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For the Tomb of Julius II, Michelangelo sculpted the statue of Moses as the central figure of the 40 figures in Julius II's tomb
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Michelangelo decided to be an architect in 1519, and built or designed many great structures in Florence
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Michelangelo took the commission of the Medici Tombs for the New Sacristy of San Lorenzo. One was intended for Lorenzo de' Medici, and the other for Guiliano de' Medici.
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The Laurentian Library was one of the most famous structures that Michelangelo built. It had an elegant entrance hall and many details in the walls, but was only finished a decade later
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Michelangelo became a member of the Nova della Miliza, the nine-men in charge of the city's forces, also an expert on fortifications.
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Michelangelo left Florence forever, and the influence that his actions affected on the people of Florence made him said "I never knew a people more ungrateful and arrogant than Florentines."
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Only two days after Michelangelo's arrival in Rome, Paul III Farnese confirmed the commission for the Last Judgment to Michelangelo.
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Michelangelo had met Vittoria Colonna, a poet who was an important figure in the Viterbo Circle. A deep friendship developed between Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna, and thus is how Michelangelo had started to study poetry
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Michelangelo finished the Last Judgement.
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Michelangelo's servant Urbino died on 1556, leaving Michelangelo alone without his friends whom died before Urbino.
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Vasari in his second edition recorded how Michelangelo is working everyday on Rondanini Pieta, his last sculpture before his death.
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Michelangelo died on February 18th, 1564, burning many of his latest artworks with him.