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Michelangelo

1475 - 1564

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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art. Michelangelo's creative abilities and mastery in a range of artistic arenas define him as an archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and elder contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci. Given the sheer volume of surviving correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences, Michelangelo is one of the best-documented artists of the 16th century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michelangelo is the most popular painter (up from 2nd in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Italy and the most popular Italian Painter.

Michelangelo is most famous for his paintings of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Michelangelo ranks 1 out of 2,023. After him are Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Raphael, Rembrandt, Salvador Dalí, Albrecht Dürer, Frida Kahlo, Claude Monet, Peter Paul Rubens, Caravaggio, and Francisco Goya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1475, Michelangelo ranks 1. After him are Pope Leo X, Cesare Borgia, Paolo Uccello, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Diego de Almagro, Beatrice d'Este, Sebastiano Serlio, Bernardino Luini, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, Anne of York, and Afonso, Prince of Portugal. Among people deceased in 1564, Michelangelo ranks 1. After him are John Calvin, Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, Andreas Vesalius, Pierre Belon, Matrakçı Nasuh, Rani Durgavati, Sabina of Bavaria, Charles Estienne, Giovanni da Udine, Éléonore de Roye, and Theodore Bibliander.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Michelangelo ranks 6 out of 5,161. Before him are Leonardo da Vinci (1452), Marco Polo (1254), Galileo Galilei (1564), Christopher Columbus (1451), and Julius Caesar (-100). After him are Archimedes (-287), Dante Alighieri (1265), Augustus (-63), Antonio Vivaldi (1678), Raphael (1483), and Niccolò Machiavelli (1469).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Michelangelo ranks 1. After him are Raphael (1483), Caravaggio (1571), Sandro Botticelli (1445), Giotto (1267), Donatello (1386), Titian (1488), Amedeo Modigliani (1884), Masaccio (1401), Tintoretto (1518), Paolo Veronese (1528), and Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526).

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