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In full MICHELANGELO DI LODOVICO BUONARROTI SIMONI (b. March 6, 1475, Caprese, Republic of Florence [Italy] — d. Feb. 18, 1564, Rome), Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.
[Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1994] ‘‘I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.'’
— Michelangelo, quoted in Vasari's Lives of the Artists

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Michelangelo (b. March 6, 1475, Caprese, Republic of Florence [Italy]--d. Feb. 18, 1564, Rome)

Michelangelo
(b. March 6, 1475, Caprese, Republic of Florence [Italy]--d. Feb. 18, 1564, Rome)