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Michelangelo Buonarroti was born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese, Italy, a village where his father, Lodovico Buonarroti, was briefly serving as a Florentine government agent. The family moved back to Florence before Michelangelo was one month old. Michelangelo's mother died when he was six.
Sixteenth century art historian and contemporary of Michelangelo Giorgi Vasari (1511-1574) in Lives of the Artists tells the tale of why Michelangelo identified himself as the sculptor on the Pieta: âMichelangelo devoted so much love and pains on this work that he put his name on the girdle crossing the Virginâs breast, a thing he never did again.