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Michelangelo's life

By reganstowers
  • Mar 6, 1475

    Michelangelo was born

    in Caprese, Italy
  • Mar 7, 1481

    his mother died

  • Mar 6, 1489

    michelangelo moved into the palace of Florentine ruler Lorenzo to study sculptures

    At the age of 14
  • Apr 9, 1492

    Lorenzo the Magnificent’s death

    led Michelangelo to flee to Bologna
  • Mar 6, 1495

    He returned to Florence

    begin work as a sculptor
  • Mar 6, 1500

    michelangelo was sent to the fashionable Florentine painters shop

    At the age of 13
  • Mar 7, 1503

    Tomb of Julius II

    completed and installed in San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome
  • Mar 7, 1512

    Michelangelo completed the Florentine Pietà

  • Oct 31, 1512

    Michelangelo finished the Sistine Chapel

  • Mar 7, 1546

    Michelangelo's crowning glory

    in his field it came when he was made chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica
  • Mar 7, 1546

    Still working on the Pauline Chapel frescoes

  • Mar 7, 1547

    Michelangelo completed the Florentine Pietà

  • Mar 7, 1550

    Michelangelo worked on the Rondanini Pietà,

    which is now in Milan.
  • Feb 18, 1564

    Michelangelo died

    at age 88
  • Feb 18, 1564

    died at home