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Ciao! I am Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni! Most people just call me by my first name.
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Have any of you ever heard of me? I should think so! I am considered by many people to be the greatest artist who ever lived!
I was born near and grew up in Firenze, Italia, or as you say, Florence, Italy, which is the center of Renaissance.
People at this time were interested in architecture, painting, poetry and sculpture – and of course, I am good at all of these!
I grew up with a family of stonecutters, since my parents couldn’t take care of me, which may be where I got my love for cutting stones into sculpture!
You see, I love sculpture!
So when I was 16, I studied at a school for sculptors started by a wealthy and powerful man, Lorenzo de’ Medici, who became one of my patrons.
A patron is someone who pays you to create art.
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So I had another patron from Rome who paid me to make a statue of Mary holding the crucified Jesus. It is called the Pieta. Everyone who