Renaissance, Michelangelo. He is responsible for many of the world's best works of art and even a Ninja turtle. I have recently been to his time period, and have learned many incredible things to share.
             Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was on March 6 1475, in Caprise, Italy. His life started out on a rough note when his mother died when he was only 6 years old. His father briefly served as a Florentine government agent and then soon became an improvished nobleman. Michelangelo lived with his father until he was apprenticed at the age of 13 to Domenico Ghirlandaio, the most fashionable painter in Florence at the time. For unknown reasons, the apprenticeship was broken off a year later. When he was 15 years old, Michelangelo was sent to live with the Medici household where he had access to a collection of ancient roman sculptures of the ruler of Florence.
             The earliest known sculpture that Michelangelo ever created was when he was 17. It was a carved relief of a battle between the Greeks and the Centaurs. After this first sculpture, he created "Cupid", which Michelangelo sold in Rome has never been found to this day. In Michelangelo's early days, his work was remarkable with the simple solid forms and the squarish proportions.
             In 1496, Michelangelo moved to Rome where he created "Bacchus", his only sculpture meant to be viewed from all angles. Around the same time, he created the "pieta". It was a sculpture depicting Mary as a young woman holding a dead Christ in her hands. Michelangelo moved back to Florence in 1501 in which he was recognized as the most talented sculptor in central Italy. From 1501 to 1504, Michelangelo created one of the best-known works of art in history, "David". It was a 17-foot tall marble statue of an alert David waiting for his enemy Goliath.
             Michelangelo's greatest accomplishment was the painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, loca...