Famed artist Michelangelo Buonarroti began work on the daunting project in 1508 by order of Pope Julius II, intending to only paint the 12 Apostles. Instead, four years later, more than 300 ...
1, 1512? “Michelangelo Buonarroti, the greatest of the Italian Renaissance artists, was born in the small village of Caprese in 1475. The son of a government administrator, he grew up in Florence, a ...