" I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

Micheangelo Buonarotti, Artist 1564

The best artist has that thought alone
Which is contained within the marble shell;
The sculptor's hand can only break the spell
To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

Michelangelo

Also commemorated this day, Albert Durer, Painter 1528,   Lucas Cranach the Elder, Painter, 1553; matthias Grunweald, painter, 1528