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Some of the greatest achievements in art during the Renaissance were made by Michelangelo. He was both a painter and an architect, but his first love was sculpture. He thought of sculpture as the making of people--cutting solid, human figures from hard stone.

The statue of Moses, illustrated below, shows how Michelangelo gave life to his ``men of stone.'' According to the Bible, Moses was the leader of the Hebrews and the person chosen by God to go up Mt. Sinai

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