When Renaissance artists such as Pinturicchio, Raphael, Michelangelo, Ghirlandaio or Filippino Lippi descended into the ruins of Nero's Domus Aurea, they carved or painted their names and returned with the grottesche style of decoration.

Several months after Michelangelo's birth, the family returned to Florence, where Michelangelo was raised.

Michelangelo left the security of the Medici court and returned to his father's house.

Michelangelo returned to Florence but received no commissions from the new city government under Savonarola.

The tomb sculptures, however, were never to be finished because in 1508 the Pope returned to Rome victorious and summoned Michelangelo to begin work on the ceiling.

It can be said of late phase mannerist painting in Florence, that the city that had early breathed life into statuary with the works of masters like Donatello and Michelangelo, was still so awed by them that it petrified the poses of figures in painting.

It crosses Florence, where it passes below the Ponte Vecchio and the Santa Trìnita bridge ( built by Bartolomeo Ammanati, but inspired by Michelangelo ).

Returning to Italy, the most celebrated doors are those of the Battistero di San Giovanni ( Florence ), which together with the door frames are all in bronze, the borders of the latter being perhaps the most remarkable: the modeling of the figures, birds and foliage of the south doorway, by Andrea Pisano ( 1330 ), and of the east doorway by Ghiberti ( 1425 – 1452 ), are of great beauty ; in the north door ( 1402 – 1424 ) Ghiberti adopted the same scheme of design for the paneling and figure subjects in them as Andrea Pisano, but in the east door the rectangular panels are all filled, with bas-reliefs, in which Scripture subjects are illustrated with innumerable figures, these being probably the gates of Paradise of which Michelangelo speaks.

It comes to the fore in Italian Renaissance painting, where a series of increasingly ambitious works were produced, many still religious, but several, especially in Florence, which did actually feature near-contemporary historical scenes such as the set of three huge canvases on The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello, the abortive Battle of Cascina by Michelangelo and the Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo da Vinci, neither of which were completed.

When in Florence Leonardo and Michelangelo were each given a commission by Gonfaloniere Piero Soderini to decorate a wall in the “ Hall of Five Hundred ”.

As in painting, early Italian Mannerist sculpture was very largely an attempt to find an original style that would top the achievement of the High Renaissance, which in sculpture essentially meant Michelangelo, and much of the struggle to achieve this was played out in commissions to fill other places in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, next to Michelangelo's David.

When in 1489, Lorenzo de ' Medici, de facto ruler of Florence, asked Ghirlandaio for his two best pupils, Ghirlandaio sent Michelangelo and Francesco Granacci.

In 1513, Pope Julius II died and his successor Pope Leo X, of the Medici family, commissioned Michelangelo to reconstruct the façade of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence and to adorn it with sculptures.

A siege of the city ensued, and Michelangelo went to the aid of his beloved Florence by working on the city's fortifications from 1528 to 1529.

Completely out of sympathy with the repressive reign of the ducal Medici, Michelangelo left Florence for good in the mid-1530s, leaving assistants to complete the Medici chapel.

Attributed to Michelangelo around 1555: Palestrina Pietà, Galleria dell ' Academia, Florence

The major Florentine architectural projects by Michelangelo are the unexecuted façade for the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence, and the Medici Chapel ( Capella Medicea ) and Laurentian Library there, and the fortifications of Florence.

Around 1530, Michelangelo designed the Laurentian Library in Florence, attached to the church of San Lorenzo.

David ( Michelangelo ) | David, by Michelangelo ( Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze # The Accademi Gallery | The Accademia Gallery, Florence ) is an example of high Renaissance art

The traces of influences from ancient Roman and Greek art that are present in some of Masaccio's works presumably originated from this trip: they should also have been present in a lost Sagra, ( today known through some drawings, including one by Michelangelo ), a fresco commissioned for the consecration ceremony of the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence ( April 19, 1422 ).

* 1501: Michelangelo returns to his native Florence to begin work on the statue David.

* Michelangelo Buonarroti begins work on the fortifications of Florence.

Crucifix, sculpture by Michelangelo, Santo Spirito, Florence | Santo Spirito Church, Florence, Italy ( ca.

* The Signoria of Florence commissions both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to paint the walls of the Grand Council Chamber in the Palazzo Vecchio.

Michelangelo's Pietà ( Michelangelo ) | Pietà, a depiction of the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Saint Mary | Mary after the Crucifixion, was carved in 1499, when the sculptor was 24 years old.

The Pietà ( 1498 – 1499 ) is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.

The Prophet Joel as imagined by Michelangelo ( Fresco, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, 1508 – 1512 )

File: Michelangelo Epifania. jpg | Room 90-Michelangelo's Epifania-his only surviving large scale cartoon ( 1550 – 53 )

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610 ) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610.

* 1992 – Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.

* 1475 – Michelangelo, Italian artist and sculptor ( d. 1564 )

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni ( 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564 ), commonly known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.

At this time, Michelangelo sculpted the reliefs Madonna of the Steps ( 1490 – 1492 ) and Battle of the Centaurs ( 1491 – 1492 ).

Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel ; the work took approximately four years to complete ( 1508 – 1512 )

During the same period, Michelangelo took the commission to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which took approximately four years to complete ( 1508 – 1512 ).

The longest sequence was written to Tommaso dei Cavalieri ( c. 1509 – 1587 ), who was 23 years old when Michelangelo met him in 1532, at the age of 57 ; these make up the first large sequence of poems in any modern tongue addressed by one man to another, predating Shakespeare's sonnets to the fair youth by fifty years:

* 1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.

The Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt ( 1818 – 1897 ) in his Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien ( 1860 ), by contrast, defined the Renaissance as the period between Giotto and Michelangelo in Italy, that is, the 14th to mid-16th centuries.

Michelangelo Moses ( Michelangelo ) | Moses, ( c. 1513 – 1515 ), housed in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome.

* 1501 – Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.

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* September 29 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director ( d. 2007 )

* February 18 – Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian artist, architect and sculptor ( b. 1475 )

* November 1 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti, is exhibited to the public for the first time.

* July 18 – Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist ( b. 1573 )