Michelangelo was a famous Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer that belonged to the High Renaissance who influenced and developed a great part of the Western art. People from that time considered him as one of the best and greatest artist during his lifetime and is currently considered as one of the greatest artists due to his accomplishments. He is often considered, along with Leonardo da Vinci, as a contender of the archetypal Renaissance man. He was so successful with his work, that he had a biography published while he was alive, being the first Western artist to accomplish this. David was one of his most famous sculptures which he sculpted before he was 30. This Renaissance sculpture was created between 1501 and 1504.
