Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, he was mostly active in Rome from his thirties onwards. His work drew on classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art. Alongside his elder contemporary Leonardo da Vinci, he is regarded as an archetypal Renaissance man, and he is one of the best-documented artists of the 16th century.