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Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art...

Timeline of Events

1498

8.26.1498

Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà.

1501

9.13.1501

Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.

1512

11.1.1512

The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.

1972

5.21.1972

Michelangelo's ''Pietà'' in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.