Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance. Michelangelo was born in Tuscany and would grow up to be a famous painter. Although Michelangelo was a very prestigious painter who often proclaimed to be a genius and inspired himself, his great works says otherwise. The masterpieces surrounding Michelangelo were possibly his best teachers. The work of early Renaissance masters such