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What was new about Michelangelo's treatment of religious themes in sculpture? During his lifetime, 1475 - 1564, Michelangelo was arguably the most representative artist of the Italian Renaissance. Like Leonardo da Vinci he was extremely versatile, being equally capable not only as a painter and sculptor, but also in the art of poetry, music, engineering and architecture. He lived to the extraordinary age, for the time, of eighty-nine. He was not only a great master of the High Renaissance but was also responsible in part for the development of Mannerism, a style that became predominant in Europe during the last three-quarters of the 16th Century. Although monumentally gifted in the art of painting, it is Michelangelo's chosen medium of sculpture for which he will forever stand alone. The most impressive of Michelangelo's religious themes, examples being the 'Pieta' and 'David', are universally hailed as some of the greatest works of...

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