Michelangelo had from an early age developed…

Michelangelo had from an early age developed a deeply original style of his own that had at first been greatly admired, then often copied and imitated by his contemporaries.

His terribilità, a sense of awe-inspiring grandeur, is among the qualities most admired by his contemporaries and the attempt of subsequent artists to imitate.

Michelangelo's impassioned and highly personal style has thus been learned by the other artists copying the works of the master: learning by copying is a standard way that students learn to paint and sculpt.

His Sistine Chapel ceiling provides examples for other artists to follow, in particular the figures of Ignudi and of the Libyan Sibyl, his vestibule to the Laurentian Library, in the figures on his Medici tombs, and above all in his Last Judgment.

The later Michelangelo is one of the great role models of Mannerism.

This is noticed by Michelangelo himself, who might sometimes have been annoyed by this: young artists break into his house and steal drawings from him.