Michelangelo

Title: Michelangelo
Category: Society & Culture / People | Words: 701 | Pages: 3.0 (approximately 235 words/page)

Michelangelo

Michelangelo was born March 6, 1475, in the small village of Caprese near Arezzo. He spent the greater part of his adulthood in Rome, employed by the popes; however, he left instructions that he be buried in Florence, and his body lies in the church of Santa Croce. Michelangelo's father, a Florentine official named Ludovico placed his 13-year-old son in the workshop of the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. After about two years, Michelangelo studied at the sculpture school …showed first 75 words of 701 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 701 total…intimate of princes and popes, such as Lorenzo de' Medici to Leo X, Clement VIII, and Pius III, as well as cardinals, painters, and poets. He was know for having a bad temper he had brusque and rude manners, his difficult character, his touchiness and intransigence, and the difficulties that he often had in his relations with others. He had no pupils, nor constant collaborators, and always used boys from the workshop as his assistants.

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