Michelangelo

1475-1564 Renaissance artist, oft considered the greatest artist who ever lived. Sculpted Pieta and David, painted The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel. Due to his excelling in so many different areas, Michelangelo is considered the archetype of the Renaissance Man, along with Da Vinci. Michelangelo was often commissioned by the Medici family and the Church for his sculptures, paintings, and architectural designs. Michelangelo’s poem include a series written to Tommaso dei Cavalieri. These poems have created some discomfort both for Michelangelo’s family, who published the poems in 1623 with the masculine pronouns changed to feminine ones, and later scholars. 
==Connections to Stevens:==
*Michelangelo’s blurring of the line between literature and art is a notion directly echoed by Wallace Stevens, who sought to juxtapose poetry and art throughout his lifetime and literary oeuvre. 
==References:==
*[http:// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo Michelangelo]
*Letter to Elsie, Dec 7, 1908: Reference to a conversation about Michelangelo. Letter of Wallace Stevens. Ed. Holly Stevens. 
*Murphy, Francis. “Wallace Stevens’ ‘The Owl in the Sarcophagus’ and the the Medici Funerary Chapel.” Literary Imagination. 2010. OxfordJournals.org. Web. 
*Bloom, Harold, Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate. New York: Cornell UP, 1997. 94. Web. Google Books. 5 April 2014.
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