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Michelangelo Buonarroti
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His father, still keeping a commanding hand on his children from afar, was keen to see Michelangelo become a man of letters and like many noblemen of the time, considered art little more than a trade. He was insistent that Michelangelo learnt Latin, mathematics and the classics with a view to forwarding the dwindling nobility of the Buonarroti family name. But the headstrong boy had other ideas. He refused lessons and instead turned to a local student of art, six years his senior, for some tuition. By the age of 13, he had outgrown his tutor and moved onto a professional apprenticeship with Domenico Ghirlandaio, with whom he spent a year, learning the fine art of fresco painting.
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