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The Torment of Saint Anthony in Fort Worth, Texas

At twelve or thirteen years old, Michelangelo was already showing signs of being one of the greatest artists the world would ever know. Apprenticing under the prominent Florentine painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, he created a work so masterful that for centuries it was believed to be that of his master. The Torment of Saint Anthony, a religious scene painted around 1487, was based on a print by Ma…