Unit 4 Meeting the museMichelangelo was a painter, sculptor, architect and poet and one of the great artists of the Italian Renaissance
Michelangelo Buonarroti was born on March 6, 1475 in Caprese near Florence (Italy), where his father acted as a judge in the local court of law
A few weeks after his birth, the family moved to Florence
In 1488, Michelangelo was apprenticed to the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio
After they were expelled from Florence, Michelangelo travelled to Bologna and then, in 1496, to Rome
His primary works were sculptures in these early years
His “Pieta” (1497) made his name and he returned to Florence as a famous sculptor
There he produced his “David” (1501—1504), his most famous sculpture
In 1505, Pope Julius Ⅱ summoned Michelangelo back to Rome and commissioned h