Who was Michelangelo?

Dr. William E. Wallace is the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History at Washington University in St. Louis, where he has taught since 1983. Here is his answer to who was Michelangelo.

Professor William E. Wallace, Ph.D.

I became an art historian on my first trip to Italy, perhaps on that first night in Rome when, I walked to St. Peter’s in the rain and tried to grasp the enormity of this building, and its equally important place in history.