... and, with Leonardo da Vinci, the most potent force 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. Michelangelo was a Florentine, although born March 6, 1475, in the small village of Caprese near Arezzo, Michelangelo continued to have a deep attachment to his city, its art, and ... of many of Michelangelo's figures and of his own personality. David, Michelangelo's most famous sculpture, became the symbol of Florence and originally was placed in the Piazza della...

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