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Michelangelo was one of the most inspired creators in the history of art. He was born on March 6, 1475, in the small village of Caprese near Arezzo. As a sculptor, architect, painter and poet, he applied a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent Western art in general. Throughout his life he had a deep attachment to his city, its art, and its cultural background. He spent a great amount of his adulthood in Rome, employed by the Popes; however, he left instructions he be buried in Florence.

Michelangelo's father placed him in the workshop of the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. After about two years he studied sculpting in the Medici gardens and was invited in the household of Lorenzo de Medici. His patron Lorenzo passed on in 1492, two years later Michelangelo fled Florence when the Medici's were temporarily expelled. In 1494 and 1495 he executed several marble statues for the Acra di San Domenico in the church of San Domen

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In Rome, in 1536, Michelangelo was at work on the Last Judgment for the alta wall of the Sistine Chapel. In painting the Last Judgment, Michelangelo was able to incorporate all that he had learned about the human body. He was able to show the way the body moved, as well as it's displays of unrestrained passion, overwhelming grief, or endless torment. This is what makes the Last Judgment such a unique and exceptional work of art. In the spring of 1534, Michelangelo received a commission from Clement VII to Paint The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel. Before Michelangelko could begiun there were many preparations to be made. A scaffold had to be builtand the wall had to be prepared. Five paintings by Perugino and Michelangelo had to be removed. Two windows had to be walled up and Michelangelo "ordered it to be inclined forward by about half and ell toward the the t

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