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

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

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

'''Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni''' (1475-1564) was an [[Italian]] [[painter]] and sculptor, 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.  

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 also painted at the Sistine Chapel "The Last Judgement" and the "The Creation" (The ceiling of the [[Sistine Chapel]] (1509-1512), and many other works of art.

 

He also painted at the Sistine Chapel "The Last Judgement" and the "The Creation" (The ceiling of the [[Sistine Chapel]] (1509-1512), and many other works of art. Michelangelo also designed the dome of St. Peter's Basilica.

==Selected Works==

==Selected Works==