A man who called himself a sculptor left in Rome the highest masterpieces of painting, architecture, and city design. Follow Michelangelo’s footsteps through Rome and you will see how one man twisted art, faith, and the classical empire together.
The ceiling: he painted it on his back for four years, leaving The Creation of Adam.
Sculptor, painter, and architect at once — the embodiment of the Renaissance "universal man."
The great dome he designed in his seventies still rules the Roman skyline.
His redesigned trapezoidal piazza aligns the classical empire and the Renaissance in one place.
The source he learned from: back to this 2,000-year-old Roman dome to measure it and study its geometry.