Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, and architect who produced the Sistine Chapel ceiling, the Pietà, and David — widely considered the greatest artist of all time and the supreme exemplar of Renaissance humanism.
Demonstrated that the human body could be the complete vehicle of spiritual and emotional expression — that physical form contains the soul — making anatomy the supreme artistic subject and establishing the heroic male nude as the highest form of Western art.
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