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Michelangelo: More than a painter 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 …

…every form of art. This though was not the only influence he has had on artists today. Michelangelo was often described as challenging and temperamental, the same way society today tends to describe artists. The reign of Michelangelo as a painter, sculptor, architect and poet came to an end on February 18, 1564. His brilliance and creativity was seemed to have passed on to others. Michelangelo passes away the same year William Shakespeare and Galileo were born.