Michelangelo Dies: Renaissance Master's Legacy Endures
He was eighty-eight when he died, still working on St. Peter's Basilica. Michelangelo had spent sixty years reshaping Western art — the Pietà carved before he turned twenty-five, the Sistine ceiling painted flat on his back over four years, David standing seventeen feet tall in Florence's central square. He thought of himself as a sculptor. Painting was something he did reluctantly. The most influential painter of the Renaissance considered it his second skill.
February 18, 1564
462 years ago
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