Michelangelo

Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarotti Simoni was born on the 6th of March in the year 1475.
He was born near Arezzo, in Caprese, in Italy. His father was the resident magistrate in Caprese.
When he was 13 years old, he was the apprentice of Domenico Ghirlandaio, who was painting a chapel in the church of Santa Maria Novella at that time.
Here did Michelangelo learn the technique of fresco for his works, he made later on.
(fresco, is painting on fresh plaster before it dries).
When Michelangelo was 15 years old, he was spending time in the home and gardens of Lorenzo de ‘Medici. When Lorenzo died, Michelangelo went to Bologna, and after a short return to Florence, he went to Rome. There he made the famous sculpture the Pietà which is in the St. Peters’s basilica in Rome.
Four years later, he came back to Florence, where he made his most famous sculpture, the marble David. And he also painted the Holy Family of the Tribune.
By the year 1503, Michelangelo was called to Rome by Pope Julius II to create a tomb for him. Michelangelo constantly had to stop working on the tomb, because he had loads of other tasks. Like the frescoes on the Sistine Chapel. While he was completing the Sistine Chapel,(what took him almost 4 years), he returned to the tomb of Julius. Due those and other interruptions every time, he worked on the tomb for 40 years, without ever finishing it!!
In 1513 Pope Julius II died and his successor Pope Leo X, gave the task to Michelangelo, to reconstruct the outside of the Church of San Lorenzo in Florence, and to decorate it with sculptures. Michelangelo also created tombs for Guiliano and Lorenzo de ‘Medici II and designed a library, an annex to San Lorenzo.
In 1534, Michelangelo left Florence for Rome, where he spent the remainder of his life. He returned to the Sistine Chapel where he created the Last Judgement. (Another fresco).
He designed the dome for St. Peter and the Capitoline Square.
His last paintings were the frescoes of the Conversation of St. Paul, and the Crucifixion of St. Peter in the Pauline Chapel in the Vatican. He really made a lot of things, and he had also a lot ‘’Jobs’’. He was a painter, a sculptor, a poet, and a architect.
On the 18th of February in the year 1564, Michelangelo died in Rome at the age of 89