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Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni is known as the greatest sculptor of the sixteenth century. He was known in the same magnitude as Donatello in the fifteenth century and Bernini in the seventh century. Michelangelo was not only a renowned Italian Renaissance sculpture and painter, but also an architect and poet. He “exerted an paralleled influence on the development of Western art”(Encyclopedia Britannica, 1994). The Artist that is known around the world simply as, Michelangelo resisted a paintbrush. He often claimed that his only tool would be the chisel.

Born at Caprise, in Tuscany on March 6, 1475, he was the second of five boys. Even though he was born in Tuscany, he considered himself from Florence. This loyalty to Florence would later help shape his life. He was sensitive about being considered an artist, and treated as if he “ran a shop”. Michelangelo would later profess that his family paid taxes and held government posts in Florence for three hundred years. This would place him among the city’s upper echelon. With this would come wealth, land, and social status,

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My loins have been shoved into my guts,

my arse serves to counterweigh my rump,

Eyelessly I walk in the void.

Following this he also voiced, “I’m in no good place, nor am I a painter. One of his most memorable masterpieces is the buon fresco in the Sistine Chapel. This is where Michelangelo was first exposed to stone working. A fresco is a painting technique that includes limeproof pigments, diluted in water, and then painted on to freshly laid lime plaster. Michelangelo passes away the same year William Shakespeare and Galileo were born. The pigments are absorbed into the plaster was it dries, making a fresco the most permanent painting method. Michelangelo wanted to citizens to remember to be responsible citizens of Florence every time they passed the statue. Pope Julius II was a great patron of the arts. Not only did he have Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel, But also had Rafael decorate he Vatican Apartments, and Bramate to build St. He explored its movement and expressions in every form of art.

Ahead of me my skin lies outstretched,

And to bend, I must knot my shoulders taut,

Holding myself like a Syrian bow.

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