Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475 – 1564), simply known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. His skill was regarded so highly that he was often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal "Renaissance man", alongside his rival and fellow Tuscan, Leonardo da Vinci.
==Biography==
===Rivalry with Leonardo===
In the late 15th century, Michelangelo wrote a letter to his father and had a young Ezio Auditore deliver it to him in Tuscany.Assassin's Creed II – Speedy Delivery In the message, Michelangelo revealed that he had abandoned his schooling almost a week previous, as he could "feel the world flying by" and desired to be a part of it. He stated that he wanted to live up to his father's expectations, but also asked for his blessing to become an artist, an occupation his father greatly disapproved of. At that time, Domenico Ghirlandaio had just invited Michelangelo to join him as an apprentice, and Michelangelo praised the "masterful" work he had done in the Sistine Chapel, wishing he would be able to see it one day.Assassin's Creed II – Database: From: Michelangelo
In 1504, Pope Julius II hired Michelangelo to complete the murals of the reconstructed Sistine Chapel. He told Ezio that Leonardo da Vinci had too many new ideas to complete such a project.Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood novel He also designed the inner façade of the Basilica di San Lorenzo.Assassin's Creed II – Database: San Lorenzo
In 1506, Michelangelo received an invitation from Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire to work on a bridge that would span a 250-meter wide section of the Golden Horn in Constantinople. However, upon learning that the Sultan had hired his rival Leonardo first to work on the bridge, Michelangelo rejected the invitation outright.Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Database: Golden Horn
===Ally of the Assassins===
By 1511, Michelangelo had become a good friend of Ezio Auditore.Assassin's Creed: Revelations novel In 1515, Michelangelo wrote a letter to Ezio, informing the retired Mentor about a Templar plot in Florence. Ezio sent his two apprentices Hiram Stoddard and Giovanni Borgia to meet with Michelangelo and to learn what their ally had discovered. Upon learning that the Templars had found an Apple of Eden, the Assassins and Michelangelo decided to set an ambush on Dei Petrucci, the Templar who carried the artifact. However, the two apprentices failed and Petrucci fled with the Apple. Later, while in a tavern as Petrucci was still nowhere to be found, Stoddard and Borgia clashed over their failure and Michelangelo tried his best to appease the tension between the two rivals.Assassin's Creed – Issue #013
In the 1530s, Michelangelo was hired to work on the Palazzo dei Conservatori in the Capitoline Hill. He redesigned the façade and added gigantic Corinthian pilaster strips on high pedestals to make it a little less ostentatious.Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Database: Palazzo dei Conservatori
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed II 
*Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood 
*Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood novel 
*Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy 
*Assassin's Creed: Revelations 
*Assassin's Creed: Revelations novel 
*Assassin's Creed (Titan Comics) 
==References==
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