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Michelangelo Buonarroti, 14751564, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, b.
Caprese, Tuscany.
Michelangelo was a towering figure of Renaissance, mannerist, and baroque art. After serving a year of apprenticeship to the painters Domenico Ghirlandaio and his brother David at Florence, Michelangelo entered (1489) the art school held in the Medici gardens under the directorship of Bertoldo (a pupil of Donatello).
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His early essays in sculpture attracted the attention of Lorenzo de' Medici, who took him to live in his household between 1490 and 1492. There he was influenced by the neoplatonic ideas of Poliziano, Pico della Mirandola, and Marsilio Ficino.
Drawings of this youthful period (now in the Louvre) attest to Michelangelo's study of works by Giotto and Masaccio, while the marble reliefs of the Madonna of the Stairs and Battle of Centaurs (Casa Buonarroti, Florence) show the influence of Donatello and of ancient Roman sarcophagi.
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