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40 of the Most Influential People of All Time

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34. Michelangelo

A painting of Michelangelo by Daniele da Volterra. Metropolitan Museum of Art, online collection (The Met object ID 436771)/ Wikimedia Commons.

Michelangelo was one of the most famous artists of the Renaissance. He was a painter, a sculptor, pretty much anything that involved aesthetics. His most famous works are the statue of David and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at Vatican City. Some consider him to have been the most celebrated artist of all time, while others compare him to his rival, Leonardo da Vinci, the quintessential “Renaissance Man.”

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