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Michelangelo Buonarroti is arguably one of the most inspired creators in the history of art and the most potent force in the Italian High Renaissance. As a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, he exerted a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent Western art in general.

Michelangelo was born March 6, 1475, in the small village of Caprese
near Arezzo. He lived during the Italian High Renaissance. Although he
was born in Caprese, he lived in Florentine. There he created some of the
most spectacular works of art ever. One in particular was the statue David.
Michelangelo had a serious reason for creating this statue. He made this
statue to show the people who David, the Old Testament hero who defeated
Goliath, actually was.

David is shown by Michelangelo as a lithe nude youth, muscular and
alert, looking off into the distance as if sizing up the enemy Goliath. The
fiery intensity of David’s facial expression is......

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