Michelangelo

My name is Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, i was born in March 6 1475, in Caprese near Arezzo, Tuscany. My father was Ludovico di Leonardo Buonarroti Simoni, and my mother,  Francesca di Neri del Miniato di Siena. When i was young, my father send me to Florence to study grammar under the Humanist Francesco da Urbino, but i showed no interest in my schooling, i preffered to copy paintings from churches and seek the company of painters. From 1490 to 1492, I attended the Humanist academy which the Medici had founded along Neo Platonic lines. 

After that, i follow my dreams, then i was considered the greatest living artist in my lifetime, and ever since then I had been held to be one of the greatest artists of all time. My output in every field during my long life was prodigious; when the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences that survive is also taken into account, i'm the best-documented artist of the 16th century.

Two of my best known works, are the Pietà and David, I sculpted this before I turned thirty. I also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. When i was 74 years old, I succeeded Antonio da Sangallo the Younger as the architect of St. Peter's Basilica. I transformed the plan, the western end being finished to my design, the dome being completed after my death with some modification.


In my lifetime I was also often called  "the divine one". One of the qualities most admired by my contemporaries was my terribilità, a sense of awe-inspiring grandeur, and it was the attempts of subsequent artists to imitate. My impassioned and highly personal style that resulted in Mannerism, the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance.