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A 10 page paper which examines the life and work of Michelangelo. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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and never ceased to amaze those fortunate enough to see his work on the ceilings and vault and walls. His rich use of color and his depiction of religious icons
is legendary and has, in all honesty, never been equaled. The following paper examines the life and works of Michelangelo. Childhood and Family
"Michelangelo Buonarroti was born on March 6, 1475, in the small town of Caprese, which is tucked into a fold of the Apennine mountains in rural Tuscany" (Michelangelo: Artist
and Aristocrat: A Biography, 2007). His father was evidently a minor sort of official in Florentine as well as a governor of some small towns (Michelangelo: Artist and Aristocrat: A
Biography, 2007). When Michelangelo was stsill a child his father "moved the family back to Florence, where they owned a good-size farm in the little village of Settignano overlooking Florence"
(Michelangelo: Artist and Aristocrat: A Biography, 2007). It is noted that during his childhood here Michelangelo began working with stones as there were many quarries around the area (Michelangelo: Artist
and Aristocrat: A Biography, 2007). He attended a Latin school and it seems that during his time in school he realized he
wanted to be something other than a banker or a merchant as his father desired (Michelangelo: Artist and Aristocrat: A Biography, 2007). "His father naturally opposed his sons predilection,
since art was considered a manual craft and a lowly occupation. After the inevitable struggle of wills, Ludovico finally, if reluctantly, acquiesced and had his son apprenticed to the most
fashionable painter in Florence, Domenico Ghirlandaio. Ghirlandaio ran a large and extremely successful workshop (bottega) where Michelangelo learned drawing and painting, in both tempera and fresco" (Michelangelo: Artist and Aristocrat:
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