{"slug": "michelangelo", "label": "Michelangelo", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592", "qid": "Q5592", "description": "Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)", "entries": 12, "years": 9, "span": [1501, 1972], "span_label": ["1501 CE", "1972 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 6}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 5}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "florence", "label": "Florence", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "pope-julius-ii", "label": "Pope Julius II", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "st-peter-s-basilica", "label": "St. Peter's Basilica", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "december", "label": "December", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "holy-see", "label": "Holy See", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "leonardo-da-vinci", "label": "Leonardo da Vinci", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "vatican-city", "label": "Vatican City", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1501, "year_label": "1501 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Michelangelo returns to his native Florence, to begin work on the statue David.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360582028#Date_unknown", "title": "1501", "revid": 1360582028, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1504, "year_label": "1504 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Signoria of Florence commissions both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to paint the walls of the Grand Council Chamber in the Palazzo Vecchio.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365936803#Date_unknown", "title": "1504", "revid": 1365936803, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1504, "year_label": "1504 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "September 8", "text": "September 8 – Michelangelo's sculpture of David is unveiled in Florence.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365936803#July–September", "title": "1504", "revid": 1365936803, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1506, "year_label": "1506 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "January 14", "text": "January 14 – The classical statue of Laocoön and His Sons is unearthed in Rome. 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The viewing is open to the public the next day.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367291242#July–September", "title": "1511", "revid": 1367291242, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1512, "year_label": "1512 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "November 1", "text": "November 1 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323795843#October–December", "title": "1512", "revid": 1323795843, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1538, "year_label": "1538 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Michelangelo starts work on the Piazza del Campidoglio on the Capitoline Hill in Rome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561127#Date_unknown", "title": "1538", "revid": 1369561127, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1546, "year_label": "1546 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Michelangelo is made chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368296265#Date_unknown", "title": "1546", "revid": 1368296265, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1972, "year_label": "1972 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "May 21", "text": "May 21 – In St. Peter's Basilica (Vatican City), Laszlo Toth attacks Michelangelo's Pietà statue with a geologist's hammer, shouting that he is Jesus Christ.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371514417#May", "title": "1972", "revid": 1371514417, "section": "Events › May"}}]}