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Michelangelo was born in Caprese near Florence where his father was the local magistrate
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In 1488 he was apprenticed to the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. Michelangelo then lived in the leading patron of arts in Florence, the household of Lorenzo de' Medici
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He travelled to Bologna and then to Rome after the Medici were expelled from Florence
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The sculpture that made hiw name
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He created "David" after he returned to Florence
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His next major commission,recognised at once as a great work of art. Michelangelo was from then on regarded as Italy's grestest living artist
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He was then commissioned to paint "The Last Judgement" on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel
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He died in Rome being on of the best artists in Italy. Future generations adore and remember him as one of the wold's most famed artists
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