Hump Day History

 In the room the women come and go

Talking of Michelangelo.

That's from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot, but signore was a poet as well.

Not to mention, as we all know, a painter and sculptor, one of the greatest Italian renaissance artists.

He was born on this day, 1475.

He had an obvious talent and became an artist apprentice at age 13.  Soon after, he caught the attention of Lorenzo de' Medici and was brought to live in the palace, where he learned poetry, science, philosophy and art.

Over the course of his life, he wrote more than 300 poems, writing his deepest thoughts, his conflict between passion and guilt.

In the last years of his life, he was chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica.  One of his most important early works, the Pieta, resides there.