To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.

Lorna Luft, 1957 –
Michelangelo biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Michelangelo

Author Name:

Michelangelo

Born As:

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

Other Names:

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

Born:

6 Mar 1475

Died:

18 Feb 1564




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Renaissance painter, architect, poet, sculptor and engineer                          
Selected Works:


Sculptures:
	
Faun • Madonna of the Steps  - c. 1491
Battle of the Centaurs  - c. 1492
Crucifix - 1492
 Hercules • The Ark of St Dominic • St Petronius - 1494–95 
St Proclus - 1494–95
Angel - 1494–95
Sleeping Cupid - 1496
Standing Cupid
 Bacchus - 1496–97
Crucifix - 1497-98?
Pietà - 1499–1500
David - 1501-04
 Madonna of Bruges - 1501–04
St. Paul - 1503–04
St. Peter - 1503–04
Pius - 1503–04
Taddei Tondo  - c. 1503
 Pitti Tondo  - c. 1503
St. Matthew  - c. 1505
Tomb of Pope Julius II - 1503
Moses  - c. 1513–15
Rebellious Slave - 1513–16
Dying Slave - 1513–16
Medici Chapel - 1520–34
The Genius of Victory  - c. 1532–34
Rachel - 1545 • Leah - 1545
Tomb of Giuliano de' Medici
Tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici
Virgin and Child •
 Apollo - David  - c. 1530 
Crouching Boy  - c. 1530-34
Cristo della Minerva - Christ 
Carrying the Cross - 1519–20
Brutus - 1540
Florentine Pietà  - c. 1550
Rondanini Pietà - 1552–64

Paintings: Panel paintings

Manchester Madonna  - c. 1497
Doni Tondo  - c. 1503–06
The Entombment  - c. 1505

Sistine Chapel frescoes:

Ceiling - 1508–12
The Last Judgment - 1534–41

Pauline Chapel frescoes:

The Martyrdom of St Peter - 1542–50
The Conversion of Saul - 1542–50

Architecture: Florence
Medici Chapel - 1520–34 and Laurentian Library - 1523–59 in the Basilica of San Lorenzo

Architecture: Rome
Piazza del Campidoglio - 1538 • Palazzo Farnese - 1546 • St. Peter's Basilica - 1546–1564 • San Giovanni dei Fiorentini - 1559–60 • Porta Pia - 1561–65 • Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri - 1561– 

Works on paper:

Epifania - 1550–53.                          
Mother Francesca di Neri del Miniato di Siena.
Father Lodovico di Leonardo di Buonarroti di Simoni - the second of five sons.