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Michelangelo was born in Florence in 1475 and, like Leonardo, was a true Renaissance man. He was a sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. He was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime and, since then, one of the greatest artists of all time. His two best-known sculptures, the Pietà and David, are famous throughout the world. Michelangelo also created two of the most famous and influential frescoes in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis covering the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Chapel.
Girolamo Michelangelo Grigoletti
Born at Pordenone to a humble family, he was encouraged by an uncle priest who arranged for him to enroll in the Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice, where he was a colleague of Lodovico Lipparino. Among his masterworks are "Lucia at the feet of the Unnamed" (episode in Manzoni's novel "I Promesi Sposi"), "Erminia seeing Tancredi fall bleeding from his saddle", "Venetian doge Francesco Foscari bids farewell to his son Jacopo", and the "Assumption of the Virgin" for the Basilica of Esztergom in Hungary.