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michelangelo

/ˌmaɪkəˈlændʒəˌloʊ/

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What does michelangelo mean?

proper noun

  1. A 15th- and 16th-century Italian artist, full name Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564).

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/ˌmaɪkəˈlændʒəˌloʊ/

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/ˌmɪkəˈlændʒəˌloʊ/
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It was such love as Michelangelo had known, and Montaigne, and Winckelmann, and Shakespeare himself.
Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian GrayProject Gutenberg ebook #174
He talked openly of his dislike of the new style, and once he had a serious quarrel with the great Michelangelo.
Amy SteedmanKnights of Art: Stories of the Italian PaintersProject Gutenberg ebook #529
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When you shall die and to the sky Serenely, delicately go, Saint Peter, when he sees you there, Will clash his keys and say: "Now talk to her, Sir Christopher! And hurry, Michelangelo! She wants to play at building, And you've got to help her play!"
Joyce KilmerMain Street, and Other PoemsProject Gutenberg ebook #264