1. By Diego Chenoweth

2. Who is Michelangelo  Michelangelo was born March 6,1475 in Caprese, Italy  He was a painter, sculptor, architect, and a poet

3. Education  Michelangelo was less interested in being educated.  He would be more attracted to watch painters and would like to draw himself.  He was an apprentice to a painter than began to study sculpture under the Medici Family

4. Background Info  Mother (Francesca Neri) died at age of six.  Father was involved with banking  Father(Leonardo di Buonarrota Simoni) born in Florence, Italy  At age 12, Michelangelo became an apprentice to Domenico Ghirlandajo

5. Where he lived  When he was first born, Michelangelo moved to Florence while still an infant  When he was older, he moved and lived in Rome, Italy

6. Major Works  One of Michelangelo's First most famous Works was the “Pieta”  This sculpture was of Mary holding the dead Jesus in her lap  This is renaissance art because of it involving religion, its realistic, they are clothed

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