... 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)...

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