Michelangelo
- Michelangelo hated bathing. On his deathbed, his clothes were stuck onto the scud on his skin that they had to be peeled away
- Michelangelo lived two times longer than most people from his era.
- He was in a fraud when his statue; the Cupid was almost passed off as a Roman antiquity. He had buried it to make it look old.
- Michelangelo was rich but lived in a squalor
- His father was outraged when, at age 13, Michelangelo announced his apprenticeship to famed artist Domenico Ghirlandaio. In a very unusual act Ghirlandaio, the master, paid student Michelangelo’s father.
- Michelangelo’s statue; David, was 5′ 4″ but was carved from a 19′ block of marble
- At the end of his life, Michelangelo destroyed many of his sketches
- Most of his more famous sculptures were completed before he turned 30.
- His final masterpiece at St Peter’s Basilica was only completed after his death
- Michelangelo carved his signature into only one statue, the ‘Rome Pieta’ and was in response that the statue was not his creation
