Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born March 6, 1475 in Caprese, a town in the Tuscany region of Italy. The son of a minor Florentine official and governor of the town, Michelangelo grew up on a small farm outside Florence where he was exposed to stone carving in the surrounding hills. Against his father's wishes, he pursued his artistic talent and became apprenticed to a painter in F
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