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He was apprenticed to the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio
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After the Medici were expelled from Florence Michelangelo traveled to Bologna and then in 1496 to Rome.
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One of MIchelangelo's primary works
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One of Michelangelo's most famous sculptures
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Pope Julius summoned Michelangelo back to Rome in order to design his tomb
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Michelangelo major commission was the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel(1508-1512)
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When Pope Julius II dies, he is succeeded by the Florentine Pope Leo X, the second son of Lorenzo dei Medici. Pope Leo commissioned Buonarroti to reconstruct the facade of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence
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In 1524 Michelangelo receives another architectural commission from the last Medici pope: the “Laurentian Library” next to San Lorenzo’s Church.
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Shortly before his death in 1534 Pope Clement VII commissions Michelangelo to paint a fresco of “The Last Judgement” on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel.
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Between 1550 and 1555 Michelangelo begins sculpting the “ Bandini Pietà “, a work which was intended for the artist’s tomb.
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(aged 88)
