Michelangelos Life

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Michelangelos Life

• Born March 6, 1475 in Caprese, Italy
• Mother died when he was six
• Grew up without affection
• Father wanted him to be a merchant

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When I told my father that I
wish to be an artist, he flew into a rage,
'artists are laborers, no better than
shoemakers."
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Michelangelos Youth

• Apprenticed at age 12 to painter in Florence
• Lived with ruling Medici family in their palace
• Started working as a sculptor under Donatello
• Sculpted Bacchus

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Michelangelo wanted to learn about anatomy by
studying corpses. The Catholic Church forbid it.
He made an agreement with the Church that he
could study bodies in return for a carved wooden
crucifix. Studying bodies made him ill many
times.
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• Pieta at
• Saint Peter's Basilica

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David
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Michelangelo did not want to paint. Pope Julius
II insisted he paint the ceiling of the Sistine
Chapel. It became Michelangelos greatest work.
He painted scenes from the Old Testament.
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The Sistine Chapel
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The Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
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God creates the Sun and Moon
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The Face of God
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Finger of God touching Adams finger
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God creates Eve
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Jacob and Joseph
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David and Goliath
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Jeremiah
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Jonah
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Joel
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Isaiah
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Pope Julius II commissioned him to build a
magnificent tomb. Michelangelo worked on it for
years, but did not finish the 40 statues ordered.

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Moses, the centerpiece of Pope Julius IIs tomb
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Michelangelo was commissioned to make the tombs
for the Medici family.
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Statues of the Medici brothers
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Pope Paul VII Farnese asked him to paint a fresco
of the Last Judgment which would be the largest
painting in the world at that time.
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The Last Judgment
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Michelangelos last years were spent chiseling a
last pieta. He wrote his best poetry near the
end of his life. He was buried in Florence,
Italy.
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Michelangelo died and his body was put in a
sarcophagus in Rome. His nephew sneaked his body
out of Rome and buried it in Florence where he
wanted to be buried.
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