Michelangelo lived from 1475-1564. He was arguably one of the most inspired creators in the history of art. As a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, he had a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on following Western art in general. Michelangelo’s father, a Florentine official named Ludovico Buonarroti with connections to the ruling Medici family, placed his 13-year-old son in the workshop of the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. After about two years, Michelangelo studied at …showed first 75 words of 584 total…

…showed last 75 words of 584 total…of himself and the world even more directly in his poetry than in the other arts. Much of his poetry deals with art and the hardships he went through. His dome for Saint Peter’s became the symbol of authority, as well as the model, for domes all over the Western world; the majority of state capitol buildings in the United States, as well as the Capitol in Washington, D.C., are derived from it.