Michelangelo, n.Trivia

Michelangelo was 26 in 1501 when he carved David

Michelangelo is known to have hated painting and wrote a poem about it

In 1506, a 1000+ year old statue was unearthed. The main figure, Laocoön, was missing an arm. The pope commissioned a contest to find who would recreate the missing arm best. Michelangelo's version lost. In 1906 the original arm was found and in nearly the exact pose Michelangelo had sculpted.

Both Michelangelo, in 1504, and Donatello, around 1408, sculpted marble statues of the Biblical King David.

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.

Michelangelo was 24 when he carved the Pietȧ

Michelangelo illustrated his shopping list because his servant was illiterate.

Galileo was born in the same year that Michelangelo died, and died in the same year that Newton was born

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.