Who Was The Great Michelangelo Buonarroti, High Renaissance

He was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.

”The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”- Michelangelo.

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known as Michelangelo, was born in Florence, his work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art.

His creative abilities and mastery define him as a Renaissance man, along with his rival and elder contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci.

Based on the volume of surviving sketches, and reminiscences, Michelangelo is one of the best-documented artists of the 16th century.

He was the most accomplished artist of his era.

Michelangelo Poet.

Love for a lady’s different. Not much
in that for a wise and virile lover’s trouble.

— John Frederick Nim, translation.

I feel as lit by fire a cold countenance
That burns me from afar and keeps itself ice-chill;
A strength I feel two shapely arms to fill
Which without motion moves every balance.