For his famous biographer Giorgio Vasari, he embodied everything that defined the art and culture of the Renaissance: Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, painter, sculptor, poet, and architect, simply referred to by his contemporaries as "il divino," the Divine. An introduction to the work of an oversized artist and a contradictory man. "Without having seen the Sistine Chapel, one cannot form a vivid idea of what a human being is capable of." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.