The project for the façade of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence was never completed, but the grand design conceived by Michelangelo Buonarroti ( Caprese, 1475 – Rome, 1564) for the Medici church, a particularly significant…
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Works and artists Art and Food Florence Michelangelo Tuscany
When one thinks of Michelangelo Buonarroti ( Capri, 1475 – Rome, 1564), one’s imagination inevitably turns to the great masterpieces that have shaped the history of Western art. The Vatican Pietà housed in St…
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Who finished the First Christ of Minerva left unfinished by Michelangelo due to a defect in the marble? This is the knot that scholar Adriano Amendola of the University of Salerno has tried to untangle with a new and detailed study of his…
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Works and artists Ancient art Five hundred Michelangelo Michelangelo Buonarroti Renaissance Vatican Museums
The action is quick and painless, the result immediate and comforting under the magnificent vault of the Sistine Chapel. That veil of white that has thickened exclusively over Michelangelo's Last Judgment, dulling the 391 figures painted…
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After the case of the bust of Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura, the last few days a new proposed attribution to Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese, 1475 - Rome, 1564) concerning a painting depicting a Pieta has rekindled the interest of scholars…
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New world record for a work by Michelangelo at auction: it happened at Christie's in New York, where a rare study for the Libyan Sibyl from the Sistine Chapel sold for $27.2 million (23.10 million euros). And to think that this figure was…
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Extraordinary maintenance of Michelangelo 's Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel has begun, one of the most delicate and long-awaited conservation interventions in recent years on one of the absolute masterpieces of art history. The start…
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A drawing by Michelangelo (Caprese, 1475 - Rome, 1564) for the Sistine Chapel vault emerges on the market: it is a rare and recently discovered sheet, and is one of the few drawings by the Tuscan artist still in private hands. It is…
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