Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, Michaelangelo for short, was born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese, the republic of Florence, Italy. His father, Lodovico Buonarroti, served as a Florentine government agent for a short amount of time. The family moved back to Florence before Michelangelo was even one month old. Michelangelo's mother died when he was six. When he was 13, he was an apprentice for Domenico Ghirlandaio who was the most fashionable painter in Florence at the time. Domenico Ghirlandaio was born in 1449, and passed in 1494. Michelangelo’s work as an apprentice only lasted a year. Michelangelo’s first sculpture was called the Battle of the Centaurs. After returning to Florence, Italy for a very short amount of time, Michelangelo
