In 1475 Michelangelo Buonarotti was born in Caprice, Italy.

Over the next 88 years, he left the legacy of paintings and sculptures unlike any artist before or since.

His art shaped the city he came from, the era he lived in, and eventually the entire

world of Western art. Today the works we created are some of the most treasured and valuable

artworks in the entire world. Learn more about Michelangelo and how he became the greatest artist of the Renaissance

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. The full name of the man who was the subject to this episode is Michelangelo de Ludovico

Bonerote Simone.

However, for the rest of this episode, I'm just going to refer to him by the name which everyone knows him.

Michelangelo was born in 1475 in the town of Caprici in Tuscany.

Shortly after his birth, his family moved back to the city which had been their home for several generations, Florence.

There are times in history when a person, a time, and a place all come together perfectly,

and this is one such case.

Michelangelo was unquestionably an artistic genius who just so happened to live in the one

city in the world which spawned an artistic and intellectual movement at the exact same time

that movement the Renaissance came into full bloom. While Michelangelo was

far from the only great artist from Florence during this period. It was as if the lenses of

geography art in history all focused their beams so they could hit this one

person. Michelangelo's family was not rich, but they were also not poor. His

father did have some financial problems, which

is why he was in the town of Caprice when he was born and not in Florence. His mother

died when he was only six years old. He was sent to live with a nanny in the town of Setiano, just outside of Florence.

The nanny's husband just so happened to own a marble quarry.

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