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Michelangelo Buonarroti was an Italian sculptor, painter, and architect of the High Renaissance, widely regarded as the greatest artist of all time. Michelangelo, along with Leonardo da Vinci , is considered the archetypal Renaissance Man, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of western art.

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His artistic skills were such that, in his lifetime, he came to be referred to as The Divine One , and his works such as the statue of David and the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling are considered some of the greatest works of art ever produced. Michelangelo was born on 6th March in Caprese known today as Caprese Michelangelo , a village and commune in the province of Arezzo, Tuscany.

The Buonarroti family believed that they were descendants of the Countess Mathilde of Canossa, who was a member of the House of Canossa and one of the most powerful nobles in Italy in the second half of the 11th century. Even though this claim remained unproven, Michelangelo continued to believe it. A few months after Michelangelo was born the family moved to the city of Florence, where he grew up.

In , when Michelangelo was only 6 years old, his mother passed away from a prolonged illness. He then began living with a nanny and her husband, who was a stonecutter, in the town of Settignano, on a hillside northeast of Florence. Michelangelo showed an early interest in drawing. When he was young, he was sent to Florence to study grammar under Francesco da Urbina.

But he showed no interest in his studies, instead preferring to copy the paintings he saw in churches. At the time, Florence was the center of the arts and learning in Italy. Art and learning were sponsored and encouraged by the town council, merchant guilds, and wealthy patrons such as the Medici family. In , Michelangelo, aged 13, became an apprentice to Domenico Ghirlandaio, an Italian Renaissance painter who was part of the third generation of the Florentine Renaissance along with other artists such as Botticelli and Verrocchio.

Ghirlandaio was a master in fresco painting, portraiture, figure drawing, and perspective. He had the largest and one of the most popular workshops in Florence.