Michelangelo Buonarroti might be of one of the most commented artists still today but the myth around him began to take form in the eighteenth century and reflexes mostly the complexity and intimate contradictions of him as artist and person. Still his fame existed during his lifetime: Varchi made lectures about his poems, which helped to consecrate his fame as an artist but also as a poet. He was also praised as a model of humanity. Michelangelo was at one point in the later years of his life, the only surviving artists from the Golden Age of the Renaissance and one of the few artists with various biographies before his death (such as those written by Giovio, Billi, Vasari, Gelli and Condivi). During his lifetime not only was he a dedicated