Michelangelo Michelangelo was one of the most inspired creators in the history of art. He was born on March 6, 1475, in the small village of Caprese near Arezzo. As a sculptor, architect, painter and poet, he applied a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent Western art in general. Throughout his life he had a deep attachment to his city, its art, and its cultural background. He spent a great amount of his adulthood in …showed first 75 words of 651 total…

…showed last 75 words of 651 total…paintings by Perugino and Michelangelo had to be removed. Two windows had to be walled up and Michelangelo “ordered it to be inclined forward by about half and ell toward the the top, hopimg in this fashion to protect his work against the accumulation of dust.” (Brand! es, 388) Sebastiano del Piombo had convinced the pope that the painting would look best in oil, and the wall was therefore prepared to receive oil pigments. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**