Michelangelo Buonarroti
西斯廷天顶绘画家——米开朗琪罗·博那罗蒂

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.
米开朗琪罗·博那罗蒂(1475－1564)是意大利文艺复兴鼎盛时期的雕刻家、画家、建筑师、诗人和工程师，他对于西方艺术的发展产生了前所未有的影响。虽然米开朗琪罗很少涉猎艺术以外的东西，但他非常多才多艺，通晓很多学科，因此世人常把他和同时期的意大利人列奥纳多·达·芬奇相提并论，两人都是文艺复兴时期的典型代表。

Michelangelo was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime, and ever since then he has been held to be one of the greatest artists of all time. A number of his works in painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the most famous in existence. His output in every field during his long life was prodigious. When the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences that survive is also taken into account, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century.
米开朗琪罗被认为是他那个时代最伟大的艺术家，也被公认为历史上最杰出的艺术家之一。他的很多绘画、雕刻和建筑作品是现存艺术品中知名度最高的。在米开朗琪罗漫长的一生中，他在每个领域都创作了大量惊世之作。仅从现存于世的通信、素描和回忆录的数量来看，米开朗琪罗是16世纪记录最翔实的艺术家。

Two of his best-known works, the Pietà and David , were sculpted before he turned thirty. Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. As an architect, Michelangelo pioneered the Mannerist style at the Laurentian Library.
米开朗琪罗最著名的两尊雕刻《哀悼基督》和《大卫》都是在他30岁前完成的。尽管他看不起绘画，但他依然创作了西方艺术史上最有影响力的两幅壁画：穹顶画《创世纪》和罗马西斯廷教堂祭坛正面墙上的《末日审判》。米开朗琪罗作为建筑师，在劳伦提安图书馆开创了风格主义。