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On March 6, 1475, Michelangelo Buonarroti was born in Tuscany, Italy to Ludovico di Leonardo di Buonarotto Simoni and Francesca Neri. He was one of five boys (talk about having your hands full!). His mother was too sick to nurse Michelangelo, so he was placed with a wet nurse, in a family of stone cutters. (A wet nurse is a woman who, having milk because she is nursing her own child, takes on another woman's child to nurse as well.) His natural mother died when Michelangelo was only six years old. His love for sculpting came so naturally to him that he would claim in his later years that it had come to him in his wet-nurse's milk.
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Michelangelo Buonarroti was born to Ludovico di Leonardo Buonarroti Simoni and his wife, Francesca Neri, on March 6, 1475 in Caprese in Casentino. He came from a respectful family, 2nd born of three brothers. His family had connections with the ruling Medici Family. His mother was frail and sick and could not nurse Michelangelo, and so he was placed with a wet nurse of a stone cutting family.
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Michelangelo returned to Florence where he began work on the David. Called the "Giant" by his fellow Florentines, this statue was completed in 1504. Later that year, Michelangelo was commissioned to undertake a fresco painting of the Battle of the Cascina, a work that was unfortunately later destroyed. During this same time period, Michelangelo produced several Madonnas; including the painting the Holy Family (... known as the Doni Madonna), a statue of the Madonna and Child (called the Bruges Madonna) which was purchased by a Flemish merchant and is now in Bruges, and two marble reliefs, the Taddei tondo and the Pitti tondo.
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Despite the worsening pain caused by kidney stones, Michelangelo continued in his multifarious duties as architect and urban planner. He took great interest in the business affairs and marital plans of his nephew, and kept up an impressive correspondence with family, friends, admirers, and hopeful patrons. Just a few days before his death he was still carving the Rondanini Pietà. In a poetic fragment, Michelangelo mused,
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Michelangelo returned to Florence where he began work on the David. Called the "Giant" by his fellow Florentines, this statue was completed in 1504 and can now be found in the Accademia gallery in Florence. During this same time period, Michelangelo produced several Madonnas; including the painting the Holy Family, a statue of the Madonna and Child and two marble reliefs, the Taddei tondo and the Pitti tondo.
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Neither was Michelangelo idle at the same time as a painter. Leaving disputed works for the moment out of sight, he in these days at any rate painted for his and Raphael's common patron, Angelo Doni, the " Holy Family " now in the Uffizi at Florence. In the autumn of 1504, the year of the completion of the " David," he received from the Florentine state a commission for a work of monumental painting on a heroic scale. Leonardo da Vinci had been for some months engaged on his great cartoon of the " Battle of Anghiari," to be painted on the wall of the great hall of the municipal council. The gonfaloniere Piero Soderini now procured for Michelangelo the commission to design a companion work. Michelangelo chose an incident at the battle of Cascina during the Pisan war of 1364, when the Florentine soldiery had been surprised by the enemy in the act of bathing.
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