Michelangelo was born in 1475 and died in 1564 he died at the age of 89. His full name was Michelangelo Buonarroti. He was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, and poet . Michelangelo considered the male nude to be best subject in art, mostly because at the time men were considered in control of everything. Even while being an architect he tried to show human tension through windows or even doors. Michelangelo loved a challenge, whether it be intellectual …showed first 75 words of 445 total…

…showed last 75 words of 445 total…could make between genius to artist. After political events led to the seperation of the powerful Medici family from Florence. Michelangelo traveled to Venice, Bologna, and then Rome. He produced his first large-scale sculpture in Rome, a larger-than-life-size figure of a drunken god,{ the Roman god of wine}. Although the work that he made was more pagan rather than christian he believed it was more of the Roman and Greek gods that he had made.