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Michelangelo: His Life and Times

Posted by: sayingenough on: January 6, 2009

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born in Caprese in Tuscany, Italy in 1475.
He was a Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer, and though he much preferred sculptures to paintings, two of his paintings – the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and The Last Judgment – are considered to [...]