Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni's father sent him for formal schooling, but Michelangelo preferred copying paintings in churches. He later befriended arts and studied with a few of a great painter and sculptors of his time. But he considered that he could know more by copying the masters.

In museums internationally, you can find artists creating copies paintings. In Louvre in Paris, you can find a stream of artists copying their great paintings. Copying masterpieces has become ...