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This is the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Some people think that the reason why he remained unmarried was because of his poor appearance, which caused him to have a strong inferiority complex. In an era like the Renaissance where beauty and grooming were important, Michelangelo was the most disliked figure. He is of medium build, with broad shoulders, a thin body, a big head, high eyebrows, ears protruding from his cheeks, a long and melancholy face, a flat nose, and sharp but small eyes. It can be said that his appearance is very bad and unlikable.

He doesn't like beautiful women very much, and he can't stand a woman in the house. He also painted women, but he always painted mature women, not charming girls. At that time, many artists believed that the human body was the embodiment and source of beauty, but he was indifferent to the physical beauty of women. One of his friends was Vittoria Colonna, whom he met in 1542.

At that time, Michelangelo was 67 years old and Colonna was 50 years old. But Colonna believed that she still belonged to her husband who had been dead for 17 years, which destined their relationship to be only a spiritual friendship. She sent him 143 poems, and his responses were full of love and enthusiasm, but also full of literary fantasy.

When they met, they discussed art and religion, which made his long-standing pessimism disappear. She prays for him that he will never be the same person he was before they met. In 1547 AD, Colonna died. From then on, Michelangelo seemed to be insane and even depressed for a long time. He blamed himself for not kissing her face and hands in the last moments of her life.

Some people say that the reason why Michelangelo never married was because he was gay. Some people also cited a love poem dedicated to young people in Michelangelo's poetry collection as proof that he was a homosexual. This young man's name was Tommaso Cavalieri, a Roman aristocrat who used painting as a pastime.

Around 1532 AD, he came to Sant'Angelo to study, and charmed Michelangelo with his handsome appearance and elegant demeanor. Michelangelo fell in love with him, wrote love poems to him, and confessed his love frankly, causing later generations to rank Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci as the most famous homosexuals in history. In fact, during the Renaissance, this kind of display of love between men was very common, and the same was true between women. It is difficult to conclude that Michelangelo was a homosexual, nor can we say that this was the main reason why he never married.