# Michelangelo is apprenticed to Ghirlandaio's Florentine workshop as a dated training office

Date: 1488

## The fact

In 1488 [Michelangelo](/people/michelangelo) was apprenticed to Ghirlandaio's Florentine workshop. Ghirlandaio taught. Vasari later mythologised the stay. It is training, not David. Michelangelo's documented role is: He entered Domenico Ghirlandaio's shop. The master taught fresco practice; Vasari later mythologised the stay. He did not found the shop.

## Context

The shop painted Santa Maria Novella neighbourhood walls. Sharing the apprenticeship with Ghirlandaio is required. The setting of Michelangelo is apprenticed to Ghirlandaio's Florentine workshop as a dated training office is the public file around 1488-04-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Britannica — Michelangelo, Ghirlandaio apprenticeship at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michelangelo (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Met Heilbrunn — Michelangelo at https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/mich/hd_mich.htm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art). Official carrier: Britannica — Michelangelo, Ghirlandaio apprenticeship (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michelangelo; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Met Heilbrunn — Michelangelo (https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/mich/hd_mich.htm; The Metropolitan Museum of Art).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Michelangelo, Ghirlandaio apprenticeship (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michelangelo; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Improving path from Michelangelo is apprenticed to Ghirlandaio's Florentine workshop as a dated training office on 1488-04-01. A documented workshop apprenticeship is an education path. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat Vasari 1568 as 1488 autograph. Do not twin with the Medici garden. Mixed effects of Michelangelo is apprenticed to Ghirlandaio's Florentine workshop as a dated training office are separate paths.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Michelangelo is apprenticed to Ghirlandaio's Florentine workshop as a dated training office under 1488-04-01 for Michelangelo. Established: a sourced public record of Michelangelo is apprenticed to Ghirlandaio's Florentine workshop as a dated training office under 1488-04-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Michelangelo is apprenticed to Ghirlandaio's Florentine workshop as a dated training office. Naming Michelangelo does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1488-04-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Michelangelo: https://factrail.ai/people/michelangelo

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/mich/hd_mich.htm
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michelangelo

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mic-ghirlandaio-1488