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[[Image:Pieta.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Pieta|The Pieta]]]]

[[Image:Pieta.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Pieta|The Pieta]]]]

'''Michelangelo Buonarroti''' (March 6, 1475- February 18, 1564) was an [[Italian]] [[painter]], sculptor, architect, engineer, and poet, one of the greatest of the [[The Renaissance|Renaissance]] and a devout Catholic. His full name was Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni.

'''Michelangelo Buonarroti''' (March 6, 1475- February 18, 1564, age 88) was an [[Italian]] [[painter]], sculptor, architect, engineer, and poet, one of the greatest of the [[The Renaissance|Renaissance]] and a devout Catholic. His full name was Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni.

He sculpted the ''Pieta'' showing the [[Virgin Mary]] cradling the [[crucifixion|crucified]] corpse of her son [[Jesus]] and, his most famous work, a larger-than-life nude statue of young ''[[King David|David]]'' holding the sling he'd just killed [[Goliath]] with. At the tomb of Julius II in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli, stand Michelangelo's famous statues of ''Moses'', ''Rachel'' and ''Leah''.

He sculpted the ''Pieta'' showing the [[Virgin Mary]] cradling the [[crucifixion|crucified]] corpse of her son [[Jesus]] and, his most famous work, a larger-than-life nude statue of young ''[[King David|David]]'' holding the sling he'd just killed [[Goliath]] with. At the tomb of Julius II in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli, stand Michelangelo's famous statues of ''Moses'', ''Rachel'' and ''Leah''.