Lorenzo founds a sculpture school in the San Marco garden
1488 · Event
Lorenzo asks Ghirlandaio for promising pupils to study the Medici antiquities; the teenage Michelangelo is among them.
On these timelines: Renaissance, Painting & Sculpture, Italy (post-476 CE), Master
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