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During this period, Michelangelo met literary personalities Pico della Mirandola, Angelo Poliziano, and Marsilio Ficino.

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So Daniele da Volterra, an apprentice of Michelangelo, was commissioned to cover the genitals with perizomas (briefs), leaving the complex of bodies unaltered.

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Around 1530 Michelangelo designed the Laurentian Library in Florence, attached to the church of San Lorenzo.

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The house Michelangelo lived in during this time was demolished in 1874.

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Michelangelo died in 1564, the year of the birth of Galileo and William Shakespeare.

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After leaving Ghirlandaio in 1489, Michelangelo dedicated himself to his studies at Lorenzo's school from 1490 to 1492.

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On July 4, Michelangelo started to carve a larger than-life-size statue of the Roman wine god, Bacchus, commissioned by the banker Jacopo Galli for his garden.

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Michelangelo stayed in Florence for awhile, in a small room underneath San Lorenzo that can still be visited to this day.

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Due to interruptions, Michelangelo worked on the tomb for 40 years without finishing it.

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After Michelangelo's death, it was decided to obscure the genitals ("Pictura in Cappella Ap.ca coopriantur").

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Michelangelo was touched by Friar Savonarola's preaching, moral severity, and his vision of renovation of the Roman Church.

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Michelangelo created both the major sculptures and the interior plan.

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Michelangelo had become like a son to Lorenzo.

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Today a modern reconstruction of Michelangelo's house can be seen on Gianicolo hill.

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Michelangelo was invited back to Rome in 1503 by the newly appointed Pope Julius II and was commissioned to build the Pope's tomb.

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Michelangelo went to the aid of his beloved Florence by working on the city's fortifications from 1528 to 1529.

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The infamous "fig-leaf campaign" of the Counter-Reformation, aiming to cover all representations of human genitals in paintings and sculptures, started with Michelangelo's works.

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Michelangelo labored on the project from 1534 to October 1541.

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A marble Cupid by Michelangelo was fraudulently sold to Cardinal Raffaele Riario as an ancient piece in 1496.

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The Capitoline Square, designed by Michelangelo, was located on Rome's Capitoline Hill.

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Completely out of sympathy with the repressive reign of the ducal Medici, Michelangelo left Florence for good in the mid-1530s, leaving assistants to complete the Medici chapel.

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Michelangelo actually razed some sections of the church designed by Sangallo in keeping with the original design by St. Peter's first architect, Donato Bramante (1444–1514).

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Censorship always followed Michelangelo, once described as "inventor delle porcherie" ("inventor of obscenities," in the original Italian language referring to "pork things").

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On the highest section, Michelangelo painted nine episodes from the Book of Genesis.

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Under the patronage of Julius II, Michelangelo constantly had to stop work on the tomb to accomplish numerous other tasks.

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In 1546, Michelangelo was appointed architect of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, and designed its dome.

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Michelangelo's output in every field during his long life was prodigious.

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Michelangelo took over the works in 1546 after the death of Sangallo.

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Michelangelo devoted a period to grammar studies with the humanist Francesco d'Urbino.

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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.

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After Lorenzo's death on April 8, 1492, Michelangelo quit the Medici court.

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Michelangelo left Florence before the end of the political upheaval.

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After a time, and in defiance of his father's wishes, Michelangelo chose to continue his apprenticeship in painting with Domenico Ghirlandaio, a well known painter, and in sculpture with Bertoldo di Giovanni.

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Impressed by Michelangelo's talent and work ethic, Ghirlandaio recommended him to the head of the ruling Medici family, Lorenzo de' Medici.

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Unique for a Renaissance artist, two biographies were published of Michelangelo during his lifetime.

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Michelangelo was employed by Pope Julius II to paint the 12 Apostles on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, but protested for a different scheme.

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Michelangelo responded to the commissioning by completing his most famous work, David in 1504.

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Apparently not the least embarrassed by this, the Medici later came back to Michelangelo with another grand proposal, for a family funerary chapel in the Basilica of San Lorenzo.

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Michelangelo was born in 1475 near Arezzo, in Caprese, Tuscany.

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Today a modern reconstruction of Michelangelo's house can be seen on Gianicolo hill.

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Michelangelo was often arrogant toward others and constantly dissatisfied with himself.

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Michelangelo was invited back to Rome in 1503 by the newly appointed Pope Julius II and was commissioned to build the Pope's tomb.

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During this period, Michelangelo met literary personalities Pico della Mirandola, Angelo Poliziano, and Marsilio Ficino.

Painter, sculptor, architect and poet Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 to February 18, 1564) is considered one of the most famous artists of the Italian Renaissance, with works including the "David" and "Pieta" statues and the ceiling paintings of Rome's Sistine Chapel, including the "Last ...Aug 28, 2017

Painter, sculptor, architect and poet Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 to February 18, 1564) is considered one of the most famous artists of the Italian Renaissance, with works including the "David" and "Pieta" statues and the ceiling paintings of Rome's Sistine Chapel, including the "Last ...Aug 28, 2017

Michelangelo died in Rome in 1564, at the age of 88 (three weeks before his 89th birthday). His body was taken from Rome for interment at the Basilica of Santa Croce, fulfilling the maestro's last request to be buried in his beloved Florence.

Michelangelo (1475-1564) was a sculptor, painter and architect widely considered to be one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance period—and arguably of all time. His work demonstrated a blend of psychological insight, physical realism and intensity never before seen.

Painter, sculptor, architect and poet Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 to February 18, 1564) is considered one of the most famous artists of the Italian Renaissance, with works including the "David" and "Pieta" statues and the ceiling paintings of Rome's Sistine Chapel, including the "Last ...Aug 28, 2017

Moses (Michelangelo) The Moses (Italian: Mosè [moˈzɛ]; c. 1513–1515) is a sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome.