Michealangelo

David
 * 1) His will was three sentences. They were "his soul to God, his body to the earth, and his material possessions to his nearest relations."
 * 2) He was born on March 6, 1475.
 * 3) He lived to be 89 years old.
 * 4) Some of his first sulptures were called "Battle of the Centaurs" and "Madonna of the Stairs."
 * 5) He studied dead bodies for his sulptures of people.
 * 6) his full name was Michelangelo di Lodovico di Lionardo di Buonarroti Simoni
 * 7) he had a fierce rivalry with leonardo da vinci
 * 8) he died in the year of 1564
 * 9) He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City
 * 10) One of his biggest sculptures is called David
 * 11)    Michelangelo made a sculpture that depicts a pietá which is a scene that shows Mary holding dead Jesus in her arms
 * 12) Michelangelo was only 25 years old when he made the Pietá.
 * 13)    Michelangelo wrote on the Pietá after he heard a man say that someone else made it – “Michelangelo Buonarroti from Florence made this” in Roman letters.
 * 14)    After Michelangelo saw //Laocoön//, an ancient Roman sculpture, he was inspired to try to make more movement in his sculpture because all of his sculptures were calm.
 * 15) In the first three panels of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo showed God making the earth, the sky and Heaven.
 * 16)    The Last Judgment is a fresco painting on the back wall of the Sistine Chapel – it is more than 2000 square feet.
 * 17) At the top of the Last Judgment painting there is Jesus, in front of the sun, in the Heaven part of the painting. There are lots of people in the Heaven part of the painting with Jesus.
 * 18) Michelangelo started working on the sculpture "David" on September 13, 1501.
 * 19) Michelangelo's mark is three rings arranged in a venn diagram with the letter 'M' in the lower right circle.
 * 20) The first three sections of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling represent God creating Earth and Heaven. The last three panels show Noah's life and the Flood.
 * 21) When Michelangelo was six years old, his mom died.
 * 22) His older brother's name was Leonardo.

Part of the Sistine Chapel ceiling

Portrait of Michelangelo

St. Peter's Dome, designed by Michelangelo

The Pietá