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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known best as simply Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.

Nicknames
il divino

BIRTHDAY
March 6, 1475

ZODIAC SIGN
Pisces

BORN
Caprese Michelangelo, Italy (Map)

EDUCATION
Florence Academy of Fine Arts (Map)

Nationality
Italian

DIED
February 18, 1564 (age 88)

CAUSE OF DEATH
Urolithiasis

Place of burial
Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence, Florence, Italy (Map)

HEIGHT
Unknown

EYE COLOR
Unknown

HANDEDNESS
Left-handed

NET WORTH
Unknown

Faith
Spiritual

languages spoken
Italian

IQ
180

Personal Quotes

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Genius is eternal patience.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

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