jameshansel

Michelangelo **Buonarroti**
 * He was a painter and a sculptor.**
 * He was born in 1475 and died in 1564.**
 * He lived in a small village near Florence.**
 * He was a difficult man with a bad temper.**
 * He was very religious.**
 * And he began studying with a sculptor.**
 * He was gifted in both sculptor and painting.**
 * He made lifelike figures from blocks of marble.**
 * His art combines Renaissance ideals of beauty**
 * with emotional expressiveness.When he was 24**
 * he carved his famous la pieta.**