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Michelangelo

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(mī`kĕl`ăn´jė`lô; It. pron. mė`kĕl`än´jė`lô)
prop. n.1.Michelangelo Buonarroti, renowned Italian painter, sculptor and architect; 1475-1564.
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Noun1.MichelangeloMichelangelo - Florentine sculptor and painter and architect; one of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance (1475-1564)


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In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.
She looked, indeed, like one of those wonderful boys of the Italian Renaissance, whom you may still see at the National Gallery, whose beauty is no denial, but rather the stamp of their slender, supple strength, young painters and sculptors who held the palette for Leonardo, or wielded the chisel for Michelangelo, and anon threw both aside to take up sword for Guelf or Ghibelline in the narrow streets of Florence.
If `genius is eternal patience', as Michelangelo affirms, Amy had some claim to the divine attribute, for she persevered in spite of all obstacles, failures, and discouragements, firmly believing that in time she should do something worthy to be called `high art'.
 
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