In The Story of Art, EH Gombrich mentions that Michelangelo initially refused the commission for frescoes in the vault. “He was convinced that this thankless commission had been palmed off on to him ...
When it comes to the High Renaissance, Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564) is as high as it gets. A peerless sculptor, expert draftsman, and reluctant but skilled painter, he was not only one of ...
For centuries, Caravaggio’s Nativity with Saint Francis and Saint Lawrence hung in a small Baroque chapel in Sicily—until a pair of art thieves absconded with the canvas in 1969. Now, a contemporary ...
The man who always signed his name “Michelangelo, sculttore”, was also, in spite of himself, a painter. Although Pope Julius II tempted him to Rome with the prospect of a huge marble mausoleum ...
Michelangelo was acutely conscious of living in an age of religious crisis and artistic change, and for him the two issues were related. Michelangelo and the Reform of Art explores Michelangelo's ...
Imagine, if you will, Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael sitting together at a Florentine lunch table, discussing painting over a bowl of thick Tuscan soup.
Arte Povera artist Michelangelo Pistoletto has created a new version of Caravaggio's Nativity , stolen in 1969 from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Sicily, to pay tribute to the lost masterpiece.