Twenty Greatest Facts about Michelangelo

Michelangelo disliked Leonardo de Vinci.

he actualy like sculpting better then painting

After Michelangelo started to participate at the meetings organised by Lorenzo de Medici, with famous Italian writers and humanists, he felt sorry he didn't learn Greek and Latin, but this meetings were like a second school for him.

what did his dad say about this or the people who were looking after him ?

This is true. He wasn't forced, but rather blackmailed, because the Pope knew that Michelangelo was fat, and threatened to tell everyone, as ray was a shameful thing back then.

i also feel bad because he quit school

Michelangelo wasn't forced to create the paintings on the altar wall and the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel. He chose to do it to spite the Pope's architect, Bramante and Bramante's prodige, Raphel.

i do not believe this

He wanted to carve his marble more than anything.

I feel bad for michelangelo but to think he is doing it against his will and it is that good the guy is amazing.

He completed most of his art before he was 30

cool and amazing

wow! nice post card photo! (joking)

ha lol get rest m8 it is actually 17.0 ft tall lol

19 feet to be excact

EVERYONE KNOWS THAT WAS THE PIETA

incorrect that sculpture was of Mary holding Jesus please + :)

Yah.....that is the Pieta, "art genious"😒

That was the Pieta..

All he hade to do was go to art school!!!

His talented skills with a chisel and a paintbrush made him the envy of all his fellow pupils. Pietro Torrigino grew so enraged at his talent he smacked him in the nose leaving it permanently damaged and disfigured.

Because of another sculptor from the Medici Garden.

No, actually he worked until the week he died. He was too sick to actually work so he sent ideas and images to trusted sculptors.

Wow

He sied from an infection a few weeks before his 89th birthday in Rome

how'd he die

Did he die because he was working too much

that's great! :)

The first few poems that he wrote was to a young sixteen-year old boy that died just a year after they had met, he wrote around 48 funeral epigrams to him.

And the first ones were for a girl he met when he was 19. Her name is Clarissa.

awesome! :)

He had about two rival biographies written of him prior to his death in 1564.

lucky man

Iam a BOSS

cool

she died when he was 6 years old

how did his mum die

cool

wow.....amazing

cool

he was not he was not

what is the big deal

Wikipedia is not a reliable website also he was not I read one of his books Michelangelo for life :)

Who cares he was a great artist.

I don't think he is gay I think he is a really cool guy :)

wow that is gay haha :^)

Honestly, he was. Many people back then were too, sadly (not to offend anyone). Michelangelo loved at least 5 men, and one woman in his later years. If you want any more information on this, search Michelangelo on Wikipedia and click on Personal Life.

I doubt he was. make sure your sources are solid

After all the masterpieces he created, is this thing really important? I don't think so. But, for those who want to know... he actually loved two women and composed poems for both. When he was old he started to feel something for a young man, Tommaso, who helped him with his work. However, remember something Michelangelo said: "If you would take the art out of my veins, I would not have enough blood in me to spit." This is important, not his sexual orientation. Read "The Agony And The Ecstasy" by Irving Stone and you'll understand more. [:

he is right you could get in trouble

my teacher gave me detention because i said it in class

he was not

Really? You had to put that? What if a child saw it and they went around saying it? it would get them in a lot of trouble.

Was it.

He was quite self conscious about his works and actually ended up destroying most of his sketches because he didn't want people to know how hard he worked.

it's bigger than that

lucky you,also I feel bad for him because he had to do the whole chapel ceiling

True I ve been there.

He was actually very picky with his blocks of marble.Hi!!

Well he made the right choice for David.

Michelangelo's David was an old damadged peice of marble.

Because if he hadn't done that, we wouldn't be able to see "David" today, for example.

i dont think it was fake marble

You should never be dissapointed in anything you should believe in yourself.

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Be believed than if he will ever be contented with a mediocre piece of art, the artist within him will die.

that is sad

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good for you bra

cool

Hi! That was cool!

that's cool that he believed that. it shows he is really passionate about the wok and art.

nice

cool

No he like to sculpt most !!!!!!!!

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