• Michelangelo was known for his masterpieces all over the world. Michelangelo was born March 6 1475.He was born 2nd of five children.The same day he was born his father noted :Today March 6 ,1475 a child of the male sex has been born to me and I have named him Michelangelo. Michelangelo’s mother,Francesca Neri was to sick to nurse him, so he was placed with a wet nurse,in a family of stone cutters,where he, “sucked in the craft of hammer and chisel with my foster mother’s milk. The picture on the right is Michelangelo when he was young. Michelangelo had a temper.

Two Slaves made by Michelangelo

• The first slave on your right is an unfinished sculpture called Rebellious Slave.The one on your farthest right is the Dying Slave that is also a unfinished sculpture.These are more of his sculptures.

Victory

David

Crocifisso

Pieta’

Sistine Chapel

Michelangelo did the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.Along with David it is his most famous piece of art.

• Michelangelo died on February 18, 1564 after a slow fever.He died at the age of 89. Before Michelangelo died he said that he left “his soul to God,his body to the earth ,and his possessions to his nearest relations.

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