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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born in Caprese, Italy.
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At 13, Michelangelo's father finally caved and signed signed him up for a three-year apprenticeship for Domenico Ghirlandaio, a popular Florentine painter. However, after one year, he learned everything he needed to learn.
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Michelangelo went to grammar school around age six or seven but showed no interest. He preferred watching painters and sculptors instead and often snuck off.
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Lorenzo discovered Michelangelo carving a marble faun head, and he liked it so much that he took Michelangelo home and treated him like a son.
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Michelangelo attended Platonic Academy for art. He was sent by his master Domenico Ghirlandaio and he studied with Francesco Granacci.
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Lorenzo died in 1492. Michelangelo was in great pain after this.
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Michelangelo was in Rome for the very first time. He was commissioned to sculpt a Pietà, a devotional painting, which is currently displayed in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.
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When he was 26, Michelangelo returned to Florence, Italy. He was given an 18 ft marble block to carve. The marble was started by a different sculptor, and that sculptor had almost ruined it. However, Michelangelo was able to save it and that marble became his "David".
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Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. He had to work on a scaffold 60 feet tall and his painting covered 12,000 square feet.
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Michelangelo died because of a brief illness in Rome on February 18th, 1564