Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Michelangelo across 4 places, from 1475 to 1513.
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6March 147518February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Michelangelo was documented, and when
6 March 1475exact date
Arezzoattested“Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born on 6 March 1475 in Caprese, known today as Caprese Michelangelo, a small town situated in Valtiberina, near Arezzo, Tuscany.”source: Wikipedia: Michelangelo
6 March 1475exact date
Valtiberinaattested“Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born on 6 March 1475 in Caprese, known today as Caprese Michelangelo, a small town situated in Valtiberina, near Arezzo, Tuscany.”source: Wikipedia: Michelangelo
17 April 1506exact date
Romeattested“On 17 April 1506, Michelangelo left Rome in secret for Florence, remaining there until the Florentine government pressed him to return to the pope.”source: Wikipedia: Michelangelo
1513 to 1516period
Julius'sattested“From 1513 to 1516, Pope Leo was on good terms with Pope Julius's surviving relatives, so he encouraged Michelangelo to continue work on Julius's tomb, but the families became enemies again in 1516 when Pope Leo tried to seize the Duchy o…”source: Wikipedia: Michelangelo
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1495year
Republic of Florencementioned“Towards the end of 1495, the political situation in Florence was calmer; the city, previously under threat from the French, was no longer in danger as Charles VIII had suffered defeats.”source: Wikipedia: Michelangelo
25 June 1496exact date
Romementioned“Michelangelo arrived in Rome on 25 June 1496 at the age of 21.”source: Wikipedia: Michelangelo
November 1497month
Holy Seementioned“In November 1497, the French ambassador to the Holy See, Cardinal Jean de Bilhères-Lagraulas, commissioned him to carve a Pietà, a sculpture showing the Virgin Mary grieving over the body of Jesus.”source: Wikipedia: Michelangelo
1499year
Republic of Florencementioned“Michelangelo returned to Florence in 1499.”source: Wikipedia: Michelangelo
1505year
Romementioned“In 1505 Michelangelo was invited back to Rome by the newly elected Pope Julius II and commissioned to build the Pope's tomb, which was to include forty statues and be finished in five years.”source: Wikipedia: Michelangelo
1516year
San Pietro in Vincolimentioned“It is located in the Church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome and is most famous for the central figure of Moses, completed in 1516.”source: Wikipedia: Michelangelo
1516year
Romementioned“It is located in the Church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome and is most famous for the central figure of Moses, completed in 1516.”source: Wikipedia: Michelangelo
1524year
San Lorenzo, Florencementioned“In 1524, Michelangelo received an architectural commission from the Medici pope for the Laurentian Library at San Lorenzo's Church.”source: Wikipedia: Michelangelo
1534year
Republic of Florencementioned“He left Florence for Rome in 1534.”source: Wikipedia: Michelangelo
1536year
Romementioned“Late in life, Michelangelo nurtured a friendship with the poet and noble widow Vittoria Colonna, whom he met in Rome in 1536 or 1538 and who was in her late forties at the time.”source: Wikipedia: Michelangelo
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