Michelangelo Buonarroti was born on 6th March 1475 in the village of Caprese, Italy. He was one of the most important artists of the Italian Renaissance, a period when the arts and sciences flourished. Michelangelo became an apprentice to prominent Florentine painter, Domenico Ghirlandaio, at the age of 12, but soon began to study sculpture instead. He attracted the attention and patronage of Lorenzo de Medici, who was ruler of Florence until 1492. See this sculpture in the church of San Lorenzo |
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Michelangelo Buonarroti b:1475 d:1564
: Lorenzo (il Magnifico) de’ Medici b:1449 d:1492
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