This is Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (Italian: [mikeˈlandʒelo di lodoˈviːko ˌbwɔnarˈrɔːti siˈmoːni]; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known simply as Michelangelo (), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the move forward of Western art. His artistic versatility was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along past his rival and elder contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci. Several scholars have described Michelangelo as the greatest player of his age and even as the greatest artist of anything time.

A number of Michelangelo’s works of painting, sculpture and architecture rank among the most famous in existence. His output in these fields was prodigious; given the sheer volume of permanent correspondence, sketches and reminiscences, he is the best-documented performer of the 16th century. He sculpted two of his best-known works, the Pietà and David, before the age of thirty. Despite holding a low opinion of painting, he also created two of the most influential frescoes in the archives of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, and The Last Judgment on its altar wall. His design of the Laurentian Library pioneered Mannerist architecture. At the age of 74, he succeeded Antonio da Sangallo the Younger as the architect of St. Peter’s Basilica. He transformed the plan appropriately that the western decrease was the end to his design, as was the dome, with some modification, after his death.

Michelangelo was the first Western artiste whose biography was published even though he was alive. In fact, two biographies were published during his lifetime. One of them, by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that Michelangelo’s show transcended that of any player living or dead, and was “supreme in not one art alone but in whatever three”.

In his lifetime, Michelangelo was often called Il Divino (“the divine one”). His contemporaries often admired his terribilità—his capability to instil a prudence of awe. Attempts by subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo’s impassioned, highly personal style resulted in Mannerism, the adjacent major bustle in Western art after the High Renaissance.