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About Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475
-February 18, 1564) commonly known as Michelangelo, was an
Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet , and engineer.
Despite making few forays beyond the arts his versatility in the
disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often
considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance
man, along with his rival and fellow Italian Leonardo de Vinci.
Michelangelo's output in every field during his long life was
prodigious; when the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches and
reminiscences that survive is also taken into account, he is the
best-documented artist of the 16th century. Two of his best-known
works, the Pieta and the David, were sculpted before he turned thirty.
Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of
the most influential fresco paintings in the history of Western art:
the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on
the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Later in life he
designed the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in the same city and
revolutionised classical architecture with his invention of the giant
order of pilasters.
Uniquely for a Renaissance artist, two biographies were published
of Michelangelo during his own lifetime. One of them, by Giorgio
Vasiri, proposed that he was the pinnacle of all artistic achievement
since the beginning of the Renaissance, a viewpoint that continued to
have currency in art history for centuries. In his lifetime he was
also often called Il Divino ("the divine one"), an
appropriate sobriquet given his intense spirituality. One of the
qualities most admired by his contemporaries was his terribilitą,
a sense of awe-inspiring grandeur, and it was the attempts of
subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo's impassioned and highly
personal style that resulted in the next major movement in Western art
after the High Renaissance Mannerism.
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