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Michelangelo

tion as an apprentice at Ghirlandaio's studio, where he learned fresco painting (Besdine 20). Although he was now studying art, Michelangelo continued to be a rebellious student who, because of his superior talents and angry attitude, got along poorly with the other apprentices. After two years with Ghirlandaio, Michelangelo's friend Granacci again proved influential by taking the young artist to Lorenzo de Medici's sculpture gardens at San Marco, where the antique sculpture fragments were looked after by "the ageing Bertoldo, who had been one of Donatello's assistants" (Murray 16). A small number of artists were allowed to work and study at the garden, and Michelangelo became one of them. He became very close to Lorenzo de Medici, who "took him into his household and brought him up with his own sons" (18).

In 1491, Lorenzo de Medici died, and Michelangelo returned to his father's home in a deep depression. He overcame his emotional despair through his art, purchasing a large piece of marble from which he created a giant statue of Hercules, which unfortunately "is now lost" (Hibbard 31). He then spent a year working in Bologna, where he sculpted his Angel with Candlestick (1495), in which he began to experiment with draperies (Scott 20). He returned to Florence for a time, but soon after relocated to Rome, where he made "his first sculpture in the classical style, a larger-than-life drunken Bacchus leaning on a s

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