Artist research paper

Choose a major, heard-of artist mentioned (Michelangelo) as a subject for a research paper. The paper must be a minimum of 1500 words. A collection of materials from a variety of sources that are just chained together without being organized to support a general idea is not considered to be a research paper. This paper should be more than just being "about" the artist. More than a biography. Try to identify a theme or central idea about the artist or his/her artwork (your thesis) and then build the paper around that idea. It is also expected that the paper will be written well enough so that spelling, sentence structure and other basic mechanics of writing will not be a distraction to the reader. The paper should meet normal standards for documentation (footnotes and bibliography such as found in the American Psychological Association, 4th ed., or Chicago, 14th ed., or MLA, or other standard you might have worked with in your field -- I'm not going to be particular about how you cite your sources, as long as you cite them). The expectation is that the research should represent information from a number of sources (at least four -- websites will only count as sources if they are online versions of print material) and that any direct borrowing of wording from these sources will be indicated by quotation marks and listed on the works cited page.