Michelangelo Buonarroti Research Paper

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it,” by Michelangelo Buonarroti. Michelangelo was a very famous Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, poet, and an architect during his lifetime, and his paintings and sculptures are well known. Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1457 in Italy. When he was just six years old his mother died. Michelangelo soon started to lean towards architecture but his father had told him that it was too below their status. When he became thirteen years old he had become an apprentice to a man named Domenico Ghirlandaio. Ghirlandaio was known as the most fashionable painter in Florence, but after just one year Michelangelo stopped being his apprentice and was given access to the ancient Roman sculpture of the

One of his sculptures was called, “The Scene of the Pieta.” In this scene it shows the Virgin Mary holding Christ’s body in her lap after the crucifixion, death, and when he was taken off the cross, but this was before they were going to place him in tomb. This sculpture was a very special work of art, even during the Renaissance time, because the multi-figured sculptures were a very rare kind of sculpture during that time. When Michelangelo had finished his Pieta sculpture, some people were complaining against him and the way he had made the sculpture, because of the way Michelangelo made the Virgin Mary look. He had made her appear very young, so young to the point where you could hardly tell that she was a mother who had a thirty three year old son. To defend himself, Michelangelo said that most women who aren’t married usually have their beauty longer. Although there were some mistakes with the Pieta sculpture, that some people had noticed, it had become very famous right after Michelangelo finished carving