Michelangelo was 24 when he carved the Pietȧ
A secret room under the Medici Chapel is covered in charcoal sketches by Michelangelo, who lived there for three months while in hiding from the Pope.
Raphael was the one who was first chosen to paint the Sistine Chapel. He was jealous of Michelangelo's fame, so he convinced the Pope to hire Michelangelo instead, hoping to prove that Michelangelo was just a sculptor and could not paint it.
Michelangelo illustrated his shopping list because his servant was illiterate.
Both Michelangelo, in 1504, and Donatello, around 1408, sculpted marble statues of the Biblical King David.
Michelangelo was 26 in 1501 when he carved David
Michelangelo is just a guy who sculpted a bunch of naked guys with rockin' bodies; nothing to see here, folks.
Michelangelo is known to have hated painting and wrote a poem about it
Galileo was born in the same year that Michelangelo died, and died in the same year that Newton was born