Michelangelo (Italian, 1475 - 1564)

Michelangelo was an Italian visual artist who was born in 1475. Michelangelo has had numerous gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. and at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center. Numerous works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'The Risen Christ: a three-quarter length nude , looking down to the right, drawn over subsidiary studies of a leg and foot sketched the other way up ( recto ); A study of the same figure and subsidiary studies of his legs ( verso ) seen frontally and in profile to the left sketched the other way up over a red chalk tracing of the figure of Christ on the other side of the sheet ( verso' sold at Christie's King Street 'Old Master Drawings' in 2000 for $12,333,084. There have been Numerous articles about Michelangelo, including ''Painting Is Not My Art'' written by William E. Wallace for The Wall Street Journal in 2012. The artist died in 1564.