Michelangelo: The Man Who Never Signed His Own Words

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He signed only one work in his entire career, a marble Pietà finished at twenty-four. He spent forty years on a tomb that shrank from a monument with dozens of statues down to a single wall panel. He was forced onto his back for four years to paint a ceiling he never wanted to paint, in a job he took only because a Pope refused to take no for an answer. Michelangelo controlled almost everything about how the world would remember him, down to hand-picking a biographer to correct the record after…