Michelangelo studies sculpture in the Medici garden as a dated household-school file
Around 1490 Michelangelo studied sculpture in the Medici garden under Lorenzo's household. Michelangelo's documented role is: He worked among Lorenzo de' Medici's antique casts and Bertoldo. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.
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Around 1490 Michelangelo studied sculpture in the Medici garden under Lorenzo's household. Bertoldo sat in the received file. Lorenzo's 1492 death is neighbouring. Michelangelo's documented role is: He worked among Lorenzo de' Medici's antique casts and Bertoldo. Lorenzo hosted; the 1492 death ends the shelter. Poliziano is a neighbouring humanist, not a co-sculptor of every relief.
Context
San Marco garden is the received site. Sharing the school with Lorenzo's household is required. The setting of Michelangelo studies sculpture in the Medici garden as a dated household-school file is the public file around 1490-01-01. Driver edu-digital-learning-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
Shared responsibility is part of Michelangelo studies sculpture in the Medici garden as a dated household-school file. Naming Michelangelo does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1490-01-01 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.
Why it matters
Improving path from Michelangelo studies sculpture in the Medici garden as a dated household-school file on 1490-01-01. A princely sculpture garden as school is an education path. The welfare reading on this path is improving.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Michelangelo
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.4 · verified
He worked among Lorenzo de' Medici's antique casts and Bertoldo. Lorenzo hosted; the 1492 death ends the shelter. Poliziano is a neighbouring humanist, not a co-sculptor of every relief.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactMichelangelo studies sculpture in the Medici garden as a dated household-school file
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 January 1490 · verified
A princely sculpture garden as school is an education path.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.12 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.1 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Casa Buonarroti — early Florence heritageCasa Buonarroti · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — Michelangelo, Ghirlandaio apprenticeshipEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Official locator: Britannica — Michelangelo, Medici garden at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michelangelo (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Casa Buonarroti — early Florence heritage at https://casabuonarroti.it/ (opens in a new tab) (Casa Buonarroti). Official carrier: Britannica — Michelangelo, Medici garden (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michelangelo (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Casa Buonarroti — early Florence heritage (https://casabuonarroti.it/ (opens in a new tab); Casa Buonarroti).
Established: a sourced public record of Michelangelo studies sculpture in the Medici garden as a dated household-school file under 1490-01-01 for Michelangelo. Established: a sourced public record of Michelangelo studies sculpture in the Medici garden as a dated household-school file under 1490-01-01.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
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Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorMichelangelo
- contributed toFactMichelangelo studies sculpture in the Medici garden as a dated household-school file
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). Michelangelo studies sculpture in the Medici garden as a dated household-school file. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/mic-medici-garden-1490
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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