Michelangelo Buonarroti has exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western Art.

His teacher was Domenico Ghirlandaio.

His father was a high-ranking member of the city government. His mother died when he was 6 years old.

Vittoria Kolonnna was the only his spouse and muse.

Michelangelo was working in different directions, as architecture, sculpture, painting and poetry.

Buonarroti was born on 6 March 1475 in Caprese, Italy.

In 1488 Michelangelo went to an art studio of Domenico Ghirlandaio.

He moved into the school of the sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanny existing under Lorenzo de Medici's patronage.

On the scale of the activity he was the original station wagon-the ingenious sculptor, the great painter, the architect, the poet, the thinker.

He was the first sculptor who learned a structure of a human body.

The author was almost 26 years old when he receive the order for statue "David"

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free"