Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Research Paper

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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born March 6, 1475 in the Tuscan town of Caprese. He died February 18, 1564 in Rome, Papal States. He was 88 years old. Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, architect, painter, poet and engineer of the High Renaissance who influenced the development of Western Art. He was a legend and a genius and no one could come close to his perfection. His name means “Archangel Michael.” Michelangelo mother died when he was just six years old after a prolonged illness and he was raised by his father. Michelangelo began his artistic journey at the age of thirteen. He was beaten by his father for wasting his time on drawing. Overtime his father realized his talent and eventually apprenticed him to a painter