Michelangelo

By: Michael AltamiranoMs. Marshall

Walter Stiern Middle School

2009-20107.8hss

Michelangelo’s Birth place• Michelangelo was born in Caprese, a small

town in the Florentine territory.• His full name was Michelangelo Di Lodovico

Buonarroti.• Him and his family went back to Florence

after a few weeks since he was born.• After overcoming parental obstacles he was

apperenticed to Domenico Ghirlandaio.• When he was staying at the Ghirlandaio

shop, that was the beginning of his sculpting career.

When in Rome…• When Michelangelo was in Rome, he carved

some of his first sculptures.• For example, The Bacchus and The St. Peter’s

Pieta, which was finished by the end of the century.

• It was gratefully finished and it showed how he mastered anatomy.

• The Pieta was the thing that made him famous.

• Then went back to Florence in 1501 as a famous sculptor.

Back home• When he became a famous sculptor, he

went back to Florence and stayed there until 1505.

• While he was there he created The David, and the Bruges Madonna.

• In 1503, he began the 12 Apostles for the Cathedral.

• But he never completed the 12 Apostles.• Around then he made a painting of the

Doni Tondo of the Holy Family.

One after another• After he finished the David, he started a

project for the Council Hall of the new Florentine Republic.

• It remained unfinished and the grandiose project of employing him on decorating the city’s town hall returned back to nothing.

• His next famous piece of art was the very famous roof of The Sistine Chapel.

Bibliography

• http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/bio/m/michelan/biograph.html