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Michelangelo


            The world has changed over the past four hundred and fifty years since the end of the renaissance; human characteristics, technology, politics, and especially the arts. Although it was much different in the fourteen and fifteen hundreds some things would not be the way they are today if it were not for Michelangelo Buonarroti. Michelangelo influenced the arts from the time he sculpted his first piece Madonna of the Stairs until the day of his death in 1564;Buonarroti was a man who was, and still is considered a genius not only because of his intellect but also because he possessed multiple artistic abilities. His works range from the famous statue of David to the intricate painting on the ceiling of the Sistine chapel.
             This famous icon of the Renaissance period was not always a flourishing artist; he started out in a small town Caprese, in Tuscany. Michelangelo was born the second child of five brothers on March 6, 1475. His birth mother, Francesca Neri, was a sickly woman when he was born, therefore he had to be brought up and raised by a wet nurse from a family of stonecutters. After his first three years of life he moved back in with his family. At the age of six, three years after his arrival, Michelangelo's mother died. During his childhood he showed an interest in the art of painting; he told his father these ambitions which threw Ludovico di Leonardo di Buonarotto Simoni, his father, into a rage. It took time for his father to realize his son's talent and true intelligence but once he did he sent him to the school of Francesco Galeota from Urbino. .
             Michelangelo took grammar from Galeota where he met a fellow student named Francesco Granacci. This new friend of Michelangelo's was taking an art class from Domenico Ghirlandaio and told him that he should enroll in it as well. At the age of thirteen Michelangelo apprenticed in the workshop of the renowned painter Domenico Ghirlandaio and soon studied sculpture at Medici Gardens then with the master Lorenzo de' Medici himself.


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