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The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture
These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness.



#58: Michelangelo (1475-1564)

Michelangelo was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor and architect. He along with Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael formed the trinity of great masters of that period. The art of Michelangelo in many ways celebrated the Western values of loving this world and humanity.

In particular, his work reflected a rediscovery of the underlying principles of Greco-Roman art. His human figures show man as he can and should be. For example, Michelangelo’s David, which upon completion was the largest piece of sculpture in Italy since the time of Rome, is an awe-inspiring hero with perfect proportions that proudly proclaims the beauty of the human body and the glory and power of human beings.

Michelangelo, along with the other great masters, gave the world an enduringly beautiful view of life, a vision which had been lost from Europe for over 1,000 years.






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