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Monday, March 22, 2010

Michelangelo

Michelangelo's dad saw his son was good at drawing and made him an apprentice of a painter named Ghirlandaio. He lived with the Medicis for a while and learned to sculpt. Once he got famous the pope, Pope Julius II, had him paint the celing of the Sistine Chapel. He is famous for sculpting David, a statue meant to look like David from the Bible story of David and Goliath.

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