Bottom line: the electromagnetic spectrum describes all the wavelengths of light â both seen and unseen. The shorter the wavelength, the more energetic the light. By using telescopes sensitive to different wavelength ranges of the spectrum, astronomers get a glimpse into a wide variety of objects and phenomena in the universe.
Michelangelo, in full Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (born March 6, 1475, Caprese, Republic of Florence [Italy]âdied February 18, 1564, Rome, Papal States), Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.
On March 6, 1475, Michelangelo Buonarroti was born in Tuscany, Italy to Ludovico di Leonardo di Buonarotto Simoni and Francesca Neri. He was one of five boys (talk about having your hands full!). His mother was too sick to nurse Michelangelo, so he was placed with a wet nurse, in a family of stone cutters. (A wet nurse is a woman who, having milk because she is nursing her own child, takes on another woman's child to nurse as well.) His natural mother died when Michelangelo was only six years old. His love for sculpting came so naturally to him that he would claim in his later years that it had come to him in his wet-nurse's milk. Michelangelo's father encouraged young Michelangelo to become a buisnessman. This would bring honor and money to the family. One can only imagine the scene that took place when Michealangelo, at 13, told his father he wished to become an artist instead.