"Michelangelo" - Florentine short story by D.S. Merezhkovsky about the outstanding representative of the Italian Renaissance Michelangelo Buonarroti. Intrigues, the envy of rivals, the anger and mercy of the Pope - all this was in the artist’s life, but the main thing for him always remained creativity. Merezhkovsky introduces us to the history of the creation of the Sistine Chapel frescoes and individual episodes of Michelangelo's life.