The beginning of a legend
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simomi was born on March 6, 1475, and Caprice Italy, we know him as Michelangelo’s father was a magistrate, was an infant’s family moved to Florence. When Michelangelo’s mother passed away this father is no longer it will take care of him and he went to live with stonecutter and he joked, “With my wet-nurse’s milk, I sucked in the hammer and chisels I use for my statues” (Bio.com ) Michelangelo didn’t care much for school it was more interested in the paintings and drawings that he saw from nearby churches, Francisco Granacci who was a grammar school friend introduced Michelangelo to Domenico Ghirlandaio who would become his mentor at the Florentine painters workshop at the age of 13, where he learned about the technique of fresco. He did not stay at the workshop long, the opportunity to study sculpture in the powers of Florentine in the Medici gardens. The Medici family took Michelangelo in from 1489 to 1492, where he met the high society people to Florence. There he studied under the famous sculptor “Bertoldo di Giovanni and exposing him to prominent poets, scholars and learned Humanists” (Bio.com). Michelangelo wanted to study the human body more closely so he received permission from the Catholic Church to study anatomy on deceased bodies. …show more content…
This laid the groundwork for “Michelangelo’s distinctive style of muscular decision reality combined with almost lyrical beauty” ( Bio.com). Michelangelo at the young age of 16 created “Battle of the Centaurs” and “Madonna Seated on the Step” showed his unique
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simomi was born on March 6, 1475, and Caprice Italy, we know him as Michelangelo’s father was a magistrate, was an infant’s family moved to Florence. When Michelangelo’s mother passed away this father is no longer it will take care of him and he went to live with stonecutter and he joked, “With my wet-nurse’s milk, I sucked in the hammer and chisels I use for my statues” (Bio.com ) Michelangelo didn’t care much for school it was more interested in the paintings and drawings that he saw from nearby churches, Francisco Granacci who was a grammar school friend introduced Michelangelo to Domenico Ghirlandaio who would become his mentor at the Florentine painters workshop at the age of 13, where he learned about the technique of fresco. He did not stay at the workshop long, the opportunity to study sculpture in the powers of Florentine in the Medici gardens. The Medici family took Michelangelo in from 1489 to 1492, where he met the high society people to Florence. There he studied under the famous sculptor “Bertoldo di Giovanni and exposing him to prominent poets, scholars and learned Humanists” (Bio.com). Michelangelo wanted to study the human body more closely so he received permission from the Catholic Church to study anatomy on deceased bodies. …show more content…
This laid the groundwork for “Michelangelo’s distinctive style of muscular decision reality combined with almost lyrical beauty” ( Bio.com). Michelangelo at the young age of 16 created “Battle of the Centaurs” and “Madonna Seated on the Step” showed his unique