Michelangelo

Michelangelo was apprenticed at 13, in 1488, to the Florentine painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, whose workshop specialised in large frescoes, before moving to the Medici sculpture garden. He always called himself a sculptor and resisted painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, but it was the fresco technique learnt in that apprenticeship that made the commission possible. The training he dismissed produced his most famous work.