This paper discusses the work of Michelangelo Buonarotti. Michelangelo Buonarotti is arguably one of the most inspired and prolific creators in the history of art and, alongside Leonardo da Vinci, can certainly be counted as one of the two most important figures of the Italian High Renaissance. As a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, Michelangelo exerted a tremendous influence on both his contemporaries and on all Western art to follow. Some of Michelangelo's most famous works were commissioned for the Florence Cathedral and support the notion that he was fascinated by saintly sinners.