Michelangelo Buonarroti: A Titan of the Renaissance Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, born in Caprese (1494) and died in Rome (1564), stands as arguably the most influential artist of the High Renaissance. More than simply a painter or sculptor, he was a polymath—a master of architecture, poetry, and crucially, human anatomy. His work embodies the ideals of classical beauty and humanist thought, profoundly shaping Western ar…