Michelangelo
Michelangelo Buonarotti was born March 6, 1475, in the small Tuscan town of Caprese in the mountains east of Florence where his father was serving in a Florentine provincial post. The family soon returned to Florence where they lived just one block from Santa Croce, the great Franciscan church of Florence. It was in that church that young MIchelangelo learned to draw. He crouched on the stone floor of the Bardi chapel, and copied the frescoes of Giotto. We still have those first drawings that are the beginning of one of the most extraordinary careers in the history of art.
