Michelangelo and Colonna exchanged poems and letters but the chief result of their friendship was the gift to Colonna of two solemn yet spectacular drawings symbolic of their shared faith: the ...

The Louvre owns the former oldest-known Michelangelo drawing, depicting two figures after Giotto, from 1490 to 1492. Until Study of Jupiter appeared, this was also the Michelangelo drawing that ...

The exhibit opened at the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo on Feb. 24, and includes the Florentine Pietà, also called the Deposition, which Michelangelo worked on from 1547 to 1555, and exact casts ...

Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, 1511 Muscarelle Museum of Art While preparing to fresco the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling, Italian artist Michelangelo created hundreds—possibly thousands—of ...

Michelangelo’s career was unusually long and complicated. But it can be divided into two halves: the Florentine period until 1534, and the Roman period after. His early work established his fame.