Michelangelo Buonarotti

1475? - 1564. Renaissance painter and sculptor: THE Renaissance man incarnate. Family name Buonarroti. Monumental ceiling paintings in Vatican's Sistene Chapel (religion, prophets, and the like), "The Last Judgment" (fresco on Sistene Chapel altar wall). "The Martyrdom of St. Peter and "The Conversion of St. Paul" frescoes in Vatican's Capella Paolina. Countless sculptures including those of Madonna (many), Bacchus, Pieta, David, Moses, Rachel, Leah, Medici family, and on.