Research Paper On Michelangelo Buonarotti

March 6, 1475 a renaissance artist was born by the name of Michelangelo Buonarotti. He was the second out of five male siblings by his father and mother. Michelangelo’s mother at the time of his birth was very sickly. Six years after Michelangelo is born his mother passes, leaving his father to oversee him. The task of raising five boys as a single father is a bit much, so Michelangelo is trusted to a family of stonecutters. Later in life it is said that Michelangelo joked that “With my wet-nurse’s milk I sucked in the hammer and chisels I use for my statues.” At a very early age, Michelangelo would seek his love for art, and participated in an apprenticeship program at a Florentine painter’s workshop to a painter by the name of Domenico Ghirlandaio. A year go by and Michelangelo is invited and he accepts with honor an invitation from Lorenzo de’ Medici, the Magnificent to study classical sculpture in the Medici gardens. Because of Michelangelo involvement with influential artist and his passion for art; this inspires him to create some important works like the Madonna of the Stairs, Battle of the Centaurs. Pieta and Sistine Chapel. All of which has encouraged many to see him as one of the greatest masters of the Renaissance era.

This piece is of a mother, and I’m guessing her to be in her early 30’s. It appears as if she is breast feeding her son. The son doesn’t appear to be a baby because of the muscle definition in his back which is very interesting, if I was to guess I would say the son is in his teens. This leads me to believe that the son could possibly be the same age of when Michelangelo created this piece. The message I am picking up from this is no matter how old you are children still are attach to their mothers care. Also, in the piece it appears to be younger children are tell their mother a