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Michelangelo Buonarroti
BornMichelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Mar. 6,
Caprese near Arezzo, Republic of Florence (present-day Tuscany, Italy)
DiedFeb. 18 (at age 88)
Rome, Papal States (present-day Italy)
NationalityItalian
EducationApprentice to Domenico Ghirlandaio
MovementHigh Renaissance
FieldPainting
Works

Michelangelo Buonarroti was born on March 6, in Caprese, Tuscany, Italy.

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His father was a banker, which put his family within the middle class of the social hierarchy at the time. Michelangelo started studying grammar, but hated it, and became an apprentice to the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. By the following year, he was receiving the same pay as his teacher.

In , Ghirlandaio sent him to the Humanist Academy at the request of Lorenzo Medici, who himself had founded the academy.

Lorenzo was famouse in Italy at the time. They were bankers who had taken over the cities’ politics, and while in power spent a lot of money fun Michelangelo - Sculptures, David & Paintings - Biography PARYV