Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the Renaissance. To the 400th anniversary since the death. The sculpture of the "Bound captive" ("Slave"), (about 1513, Louvre, Paris) on the background of the vestibule of the Laurentian in Florence (left); Michelangelo at work on cardboard painting of the Sistine chapel.