This artist broke sharply from the lessons of his predecessors and contemporaries in one important respect. He mistrusted the application of mathematical methods as guarantees of beauty in proportion.

a. Leonardo

b. Raphael

c. Michelangelo

d. Titian

(C) - Michelangelo

Explanation:

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was the artist who received the most coveted commissions from Julius II. Although Michelangelo Buonarroti was an architect, sculptor, painter, poet and engineer, he thought of himself first as a sculptor. He considered sculpture superior to painting because the sculptor shares in the divine power to "make man".