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The Sixtine Chapel by Michelangelo Buonarotti

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Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564). Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. The Sixtine Chapel in Vatican is his story of Creation.

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Background: Madonna of the Stairs, the first sculpture of Michelangelo.