The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 36 - 37

Question 1

Michelangelo

Answer 1

• 1475-1564
• he was called the divine
• never trained apprentices or had heirs
• only work he ever signed was “Pieta”
• he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel representing the origin and fall of man
• he supervised the reconstruction of Rome’s St. Peter’s Cathedral