6Michelangelo (1475-1564)

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known today as Michelangelo, was a High Renaissance painter, architect, sculptor and poet whose effect on art contemporary society has been unparalleled.

Like his contemporary rival, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo was a jack-of-all-trades and thus a quintessential ‘Renaissance Man.’