Michelangelo: The Architect

Michelangelo Buonarroti, arguably one of the most inspired creators in the history of art in the Italian High Renaissance. As a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, he exerted a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent Western art in general. As an artist he was unmatched, the creator of works of sublime beauty that express the full extent of the human condition. He was a modest man and considered his arts only to be painting and sculpture, and did not consider him self an architect by trade. Michelangelo's approach to architecture was one of creating forms rather than of predetermining construction. A great builder he was not, many times creating plans without construction in mind (Argan, 6). In turn, he supplied the world of his visions that have surpassed the test of time and set new limits for what one man can achieve in a life time.…