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Mar 6, 1475
Birth of Michelangelo
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1488
apprenticeship
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1489
Studies sculpture with the Medici family
Moves to Florence -
1492
Returns home
The Medici family overthrown -
1494
Creates statue of Hercules
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1495
Returns to Florence
Begins working as a sculptor -
1496
Goes to Rome
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1497
Carved the statue of pieta
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1499
Returns again to Florence
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1504
Creates statue of David
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1505
Travels back to Rome to start work on the Sistine chapel walls
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1512
Finishes the Sistine Chapel painting
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1542
Designs St Peter's Basilica
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Feb 18, 1564
Death