Grace's research paper

Michelangelo's Life - by Grace Denson, 4th grade Composition, 01 November 2010

Lots of artists lived in a time called The Renaissance. One is Michelangelo Burnarotti. He was a great artist, but his childhood started it all. Let's go to the beginning and find out what happens...

Michelangelo's childhood might have given him a good background for sculpting. Michelangelo was born not to far from Florence, Italy in a time called the Renaissance. It is thought his mother was too sick to take care of him, so his father took him to live with a family of stone cutters. When Michelangelo was ten, his father took him back to Florence to go to grammar school. When he was thirteen he asked his father permission to quit school so he could be an artist. Later on, Lorenzo De Medici asked Michelangelo to come to his school for sculptors. Michelangelo was an expert with stone carving by the time he was twenty-four.

Michelangelo's art was based off stories from the bible. He did a famous statue called ''The David.'' He also made a statue called the "Pieta." The pope noticed Michelangelo's talent and asked Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Michelangelo told Pope Julius that he was a sculptor, not a painter, but he finally agreed. The Sistine Chapel ceiling told lots of stories from the bible.

Michelangelo was a great artist. People were amazed that he had so much skill at a young age. Michelangelo was one of the few artists that became famous while he was alive. Michelangelo lived in the perfect place at the perfect time.

He is still famous today like he was in the Renaissance. Some day I want to go to Italy to see some of his works for myself, would you?