Michelangelo was one of the most famous and successful people of his time. Michelangelo attended a school set up by Lorenzo the Magnificent in the gardens of the Palazzo Medici. There he would have had access to the Medici collection of antiques, as well as a certain amount of tuition from the resident master, Bertoldo di Giovanni. Michelangelo was a master in more than one area. At first, Michelangelo was most famous for his sculptures such as the Pieta, Moses, David, and Pope Julius III's tomb. After Lorenzo's death the school broke up and Michelangelo would perform informal autopsies in order to improve his mastery of the human form. The sculpture that made Michelangelo's reputation is the Pieta. The Pieta
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