Michelangelo's Sonnet

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (more commonly known as “Michelangelo”) was born on March 6, 1475, (17 years before Columbus landed in America), to a very modest family in Caprese, Italy in the Republic of Florence. His artistic output, even by today's standards, was staggering. Before he was 30, he had already created his two most famous sculptures - the Pietà and David. His large painting on ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is considered one of the most influential frescoes in the history of Western art. As an architect, he finished the dome in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. If that was not enough, he penned over 300 sonnets and madrigals, and was equally well-known in his day for his literary output as much as his other artistic endeavors. His contemporaries often called him “The divine one,” because his work in any one of the four disciplines (let alone, all four) - sculpture, painting, architecture and writing - was considered almost humanly impossible. To this day, nearly 500 years later, no one has approached this level of output. The name of “Michelangelo

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