Michelangelo Buonarroti: The Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Michelangelo, a painter, sculptor, and architect, was born on March 6, 1475 in a village called Caprese. His father briefly served as a Florentine government agent. Unlike most artists families in Florence, Michelangelo’s’ was not successful, they earned their income from his fathers land and his mother died when he was six years old. When he was thirteen, he was apprenticed to Domenico Ghirlandaio, the trendiest painter in Florence. A year after his apprenticeship Michelangelo gained access to the collections of ancient Roman sculptures of Lorenzo de’ Medici, the ruler of Florence. He was looked after by the retired sculptor and started his own sculptures at the young age of seventeen (Biography). He had deep religious beliefs and used to dissect cadavers so that he could study the human form for is artistic inspiration (The Brain). Then, in 1492, Lorenzo died and Michelangelo left the city and moved to Bologna and soon started his first small but eminent commission for the tomb of St. Dominic in the church of S. Domenico. Although sculpting is how Michelangelo started out, he soon was commissioned to decorate the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (Biography).

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