What does vasari claim about michelangelo's skill?

Answer 1

Vasari claims right from the first sentence that Michelangelo was a gift from God, sent to Earth to straighten out human art. He calls him "divine" and says that, for instance, if you've seen the "David" you see to see no other work of sculpture.

He says that God sent "to earth a genius universal in each art, to show single-handed the perfection of line and shadow, and who should give relief to his paintings, show a sound judgment in sculpture, and in architecture should render habitations convenient, safe, healthy, pleasant, well-proportioned, and enriched with various ornaments. He further endowed him with true moral philosophy and a sweet poetic spirit, so that the world should marvel at the singular eminence of his life and works and all his actions, seeming rather divine than earthy."

Basically he says no one came even approach M's skill and that he is the apex of human creativity.