The most documented artist in his time Michelangelo , he always thought of himself has a sculpture, but he is famous for a lot of art such as the Sistine Chapel Ceiling and architecture building designs, not a lot of sculpture. How Michelangelo impacted the Renaissance era culturally and architecturally during the 1500’s. Michelangelo is one of the most successful and admired artists of all time, in spite of the fact that he was born in Caprese a village in the province of Arezzo in Tuscany, Italy where his father, Lodovico Buonarroti was briefly serving there as a Florentine government agent. By the time Michelangelo was one month old he moved to Florence, he grew up without a mother she passed away when he was six years of age. From the