Michelangelo Research Paper

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Michelangelo was an Italian poet, engineer, sculptor and painter of the High Renaissance. He was born March/6th/1475 and died February/18th/1564. His family had been small-scale bankers. But the bank failed and Michelangelo’s father took up a government post for a short time in Caprese where Michelangelo was soon born. When Michelangelo was born, his father was the judicial administrator for the small town of Caprese and the local administrator for another town named Chiusi. His family later returned to Florence where Michelangelo was then raised. His mother sadly died and after her death that was in 1481 when he was just six years old and lived with a stonecutter and his wife in the town of Settignano. Which was where his father owned a marble
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