Michelangelo life By Lukasmiz Mar 6, 1475 Birth of Michelangelo 1488 apprenticeship 1489 Studies sculpture with the Medici family Moves to Florence 1492 Returns home The Medici family overthrown 1494 Creates statue of Hercules 1495 Returns to Florence Begins working as a sculptor 1496 Goes to Rome 1497 Carved the statue of pieta 1499 Returns again to Florence 1504 Creates statue of David 1505 Travels back to Rome to start work on the Sistine chapel walls 1512 Finishes the Sistine Chapel painting 1542 Designs St Peter's Basilica Feb 18, 1564 Death