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  Michelangelo was responsible for some of the finest works of art in Western history including “David”, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, “Pieta” and the “Last Judgement”. He was one of the greatest painters of the Renaisssance who owed his early career to the foresight of Lo

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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni ( March February was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art . Considered to be the greatest living artist during his lifetime, he has since also been described