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Michelangelo Buonarroti

Michelangelo Buonarroti was one of the greatest artists of all time. He excelled in architecture, sculpture, painting, poetry, and engineering. He was a true Renaissance man who lived a long emotional life. Born March 6th, 1475 in the small village of Caprese, Italy, Michelangelo was brought up in the village by a “wet-nurse who was the daughter of a stonecutter and married to one”(Bull 9). Michelangelo was not taken back into the family until he was two or three years old. By the time he was ten he was living mostly at the family house in Florence.
In journal entries while growing up Michelangelo was described as an alert, sensitive, intelligent, introspective and quick-tempered boy, prone to sickness, but resilient, with black hair and brown eyes flecked with yellow. During his upbringing he came to enjoy a close friendship with a boy several years older called Francesco Granacci, who had worked with a well-known painter Filippino Lippi. Granacci had...