Michelangelo

A sculptor before anything else (he signed letters 'Michelangelo, sculptor') who also painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and the Last Judgment, designed the dome of St Peter's, and wrote hundreds of poems. For seventy years he worked between Florence and Rome for popes and the Medici, leaving many figures unfinished, still half inside the stone. He drew all the time, mostly the male body, in red and black chalk. The works are in the public domain. Paintings and drawings come from museums that share their collections openly; the sculpture photographs are by the photographers credited on each picture, under their own open licences.