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1. Michelangelo was born in __________.
2. Michelangelo's __________ died when he was only six years old.
3. When Michelangelo was ten years old, his father moved the family to __________.
4. Humanism, which emphasized __________ interests over those of the afterlife, was taking hold in Florence while Michelangelo was there.
5. As an apprentice, what painting technique did Michelangelo learn?
6. Who was the most powerful man in Florence, and a patron of the arts, who allowed the young Michelangelo to study in his palace and sculpture garden?
7. Michelangelo was influenced by the Humanistic values of the Renaissance, as well as the __________ beliefs that were prevalent at the time.
8. Which of Michelangelo's sculptures, completed in 1500, depicts the Virgin Mary tenderly cradling the body of Christ?
9. Michelangelo carved his __________ across the front of Mary's gown on the Pieta.
10. In 1508, Pope Julius II gave Michelangelo the most challenging assignment of his life: to paint the ceiling of __________.
11. Michelangelo initially didn't want the commission to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling. True or false?
12. After he completed the Sistine Chapel ceiling in 1512, Michelangelo was hailed as the __________ Michelangelo.
13. At 59 years of age, Michelangelo returned to the Sistine Chapel to paint another fresco, this one on the __________.
14. Michelangelo included his own self-portrait in the __________ as a flayed human skin.
15. Michelangelo's __________ remains one of the most famous and copied landmarks in all of architecture.
16. Michelangelo died in __________, at the age of eighty-nine.
17. Some of Michelangelo's assistants worked for him for thirty years, at a time when the average life expectancy was __________.