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Michelangelo Buonarroti born March 6, 1475 in the small village of Caprese Italy. A sculptor, architect, painter, and poet in the Italian high renaissance. Michelangelo's father Ludovico Buonarroti had connections to the raining Medici family, Michelangelo studied at the gardens when he was 15 years old, shortly after he was invited into the household of Lorenzo de' Medici, the magnificent. Michelangelos future was shaped to a large degree by his life in lorenzo's household. Lorenzo was a dominant …

…the one he originally created from 1498- 1500 in his early twenties the one he first created was his only signed work, the virgin holds the body of Christ on her lap where as on his later pieta she no longer supports Christ but leans over him in an embrace. Michelangelo died at the end of the Renaissance era when he died art was moving into the Baroque era. Michelangelo ruled the Renaissance with his artwork.