6th March 1475
Michelangelo Born
Michelangelo Buonarroti, the greatest of the Italian Renaissance
artists, is born in the small village of Caprese on March 6, 1475.
The son of a government administrator, he grew up in Florence, a
center of the early Renaissance movement, and became an artist's
apprentice at age 13.
Michelangelo worked until his death in 1564 at the age of 88. In
addition to his major artistic works, he produced numerous other
sculptures, frescoes, architectural designs, and drawings, many of
which are unfinished and some of which are lost. He was also an
accomplished poet, and some 300 of his poems are preserved.
In his lifetime, he was celebrated as Europe's greatest living
artist, and today he is held up as one of the greatest artists of
all time, as exalted in the visual arts as William Shakespeare is
in literature or Ludwig van Beethoven is in music.
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