Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.
Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness — these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.
The best artist has that thought alone which is contained within the marble shell; only the sculptor's hand can break the spell to free the figures.
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