Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475 - 1564)

Born 6 Mar 1475 in Caprese, Arezzo, Republic of Florence

Died 18 Feb 1564 at age 88 in Rome, Papal States

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Biography

Michelangelo Buonarroti Simoni is Notable.

Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.

Michelangelo was born on 6 March 1475 in Caprese near Arezzo, Replublic of Florence.^[1] (Today, Caprese is known as Caprese Michelangelo.) For several generations, his family had been small-scale bankers in Florence, but the bank failed, and his father, Ludovico di Leonardo Buonarroti Simoni, briefly took a government post in Caprese, where Michelangelo was born. At the time of Michelangelo's birth, his father was the Judicial administrator of the small town of Caprese and the local administrator of Chiusi. Michelangelo's mother was Francesca di Neri del Miniato di Siena. The Buonarrotis claimed to descend from the Countess Mathilde of Canossa; this claim remains unproven, but Michelangelo himself believed it.

Michelangelo died in Rome, Papal States in 1564.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Tolnay, Charles (1947). The Youth of Michelangelo. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
2. ↑ Coughlan, Robert; (1978), The World of Michelangelo, Time-Life;

See also:

• Wikipedia: Michelangelo

• Wikidata: Item Q5592, en:Wikipedia