The same man who sculpted the Pietà at 23, was commissioned the David at 26, painted the Sistine Chapel’s vault at 36, and was appointed chief architect of St. Peter’s Basilica at 71.
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1. Goethe said that "without having seen the Sistine Chapel one can form no appreciable idea of what one man is capable of achieving."
If you've ever been inside this room, you know that it is simply impossible to disagree with the German polymath.
Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512, and he later returned to paint The Last Judgment (1536–1541) on the chapel’s altar wall.