Michelangelo di lodovico

Michelangelo Biography

By Kung-Min Lin
  • Mar 6, 1475

    Michelangelo's Birth

    Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475 as the second of five brothers in Florence, but his mother, Francesca Neri, was too sick and frail to nurse him, so he was placed with a family of stone cutters.
  • Mar 6, 1488

    Michelangelo became apprentice of Domenico Ghirlandaio

    Michelangelo enraged his father when he told him that he agreed to apprentice in Domenico Ghirlandaio's workshop
  • Mar 6, 1489

    Michelangelo's first artworks

    Michelangelo produced his first relief sculptures, Battle of the Centaurs and the Madonna of the Stairs, when he was 16 years old
  • Mar 6, 1496

    Michelangelo's First Life-Size Sculpture, The Statue of Bacchus

    Michelangelo went to Rome to examine many classical statues and ruins, and produced his first large-scale sculpture, the statue of Bacchus
  • Mar 6, 1498

    The Sculpture of Pieta

    Michelangelo did the marble Pieta (1498 - 1500) and finished it before 25 years old.
  • Mar 6, 1501

    Michelangelo's Gigantic Marble David

    This is when Michelangelo's artworks reached its peaks. The statue expressed the difficult time that Florence was in during that time.
  • Aug 4, 1501

    Michelangelo supports the newly formed Republic of Florence

    After years of confusion, a new republic was formed in which Michelangelo supports. This is the first time Michelangelo get engaged and expressed his own political orientation
  • Mar 6, 1503

    Julius II

    Julius II's ultimate power and his role as a patron put light on many famous artists in Florence, including Michelangelo
  • Apr 6, 1508

    Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel

    Michelangelo was summoned back to rome by Julius II and had a commission for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
  • Period: Apr 27, 1508 to Apr 27, 1512

    Michelangelo's Peak

    Michelangelo painted some of the finest artworks of all time.
  • Apr 27, 1510

    The Bound Slave and the Dying Slave

    Both Statues are famous statues from Julius II's tomb in which Michelangelo had created along with the other 40 figures
  • Aug 27, 1511

    The Uncovering of the Sistine Chapel

    Due to extreme pressue from the painting of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo uncovered it on August 1511 before it was even finished
  • Apr 27, 1515

    The Statue of Moses

    For the Tomb of Julius II, Michelangelo sculpted the statue of Moses as the central figure of the 40 figures in Julius II's tomb
  • Apr 27, 1519

    Michelangelo's Role as an Architect

    Michelangelo decided to be an architect in 1519, and built or designed many great structures in Florence
  • Period: Apr 27, 1519 to Apr 27, 1534

    The Medici Tombs

    Michelangelo took the commission of the Medici Tombs for the New Sacristy of San Lorenzo. One was intended for Lorenzo de' Medici, and the other for Guiliano de' Medici.
  • Apr 27, 1520

    The Start on the Laurentian Library

    The Laurentian Library was one of the most famous structures that Michelangelo built. It had an elegant entrance hall and many details in the walls, but was only finished a decade later
  • Jan 10, 1529

    Michelangelo became a member of Nova della Milizia

    Michelangelo became a member of the Nova della Miliza, the nine-men in charge of the city's forces, also an expert on fortifications.
  • Apr 27, 1534

    Michelangelo left Florence forever

    Michelangelo left Florence forever, and the influence that his actions affected on the people of Florence made him said "I never knew a people more ungrateful and arrogant than Florentines."
  • Sep 25, 1534

    The Commission of the Last Judgment

    Only two days after Michelangelo's arrival in Rome, Paul III Farnese confirmed the commission for the Last Judgment to Michelangelo.
  • Apr 27, 1538

    Meet Vittoria Colonna!

    Michelangelo had met Vittoria Colonna, a poet who was an important figure in the Viterbo Circle. A deep friendship developed between Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna, and thus is how Michelangelo had started to study poetry
  • Apr 27, 1541

    The Finish of the Last Judgment

    Michelangelo finished the Last Judgement.
  • Apr 27, 1556

    Last Friends Died Out

    Michelangelo's servant Urbino died on 1556, leaving Michelangelo alone without his friends whom died before Urbino.
  • Apr 27, 1556

    The Rondanini Pieta

    Vasari in his second edition recorded how Michelangelo is working everyday on Rondanini Pieta, his last sculpture before his death.
  • Feb 18, 1564

    Michelangelo's Death

    Michelangelo died on February 18th, 1564, burning many of his latest artworks with him.