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Michelangelo’s drawings are noted for their unique style, which combines forceful, expressive lines with meticulous, delicate details. Michelangelo’s sketches are full of vitality and movement, with characters that appear to be in motion or in deep emotional states.
Drawing was key to Michelangelo’s practice. This exhibition explores the full range of his work through a selection of his rare preparatory drawings, from compositional sketches to detailed figure studies.
The collection of Michelangelo’s drawings owned by the Buonarroti family was the largest in the world at the time, and it remains so today, with its over two hundred sheets, in spite of the serious inroads that have been made into it.
His output in these fields was prodigious; given the sheer volume of surviving correspondence, sketches and reminiscences, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century. He sculpted two of his best-known works, the Pietà and David, before the age of thirty.
Beautifully illustrated with more than 350 drawings, paintings, sculptures, and architectural views, this book establishes the centrality of disegno to Michelangelo’s work.
Drawings by artist; Works by Michelangelo Buonarroti; Renaissance drawings by artist; 16th-century drawings from Italy by artist
Online catalogue of Michelangelo’s drawings from Casa Buonarroti collection Michelangelo’s drawings are perhaps the group of works by the great artist that arouse the greatest interest in the public, who want to find in them the most intimate and immediate trace of his genius.
Michelangelo’s drawing presents different episodes in the story of Phaethon’s fall. Above, Jupiter sits astride his eagle ready to throw a lightning bolt. At the centre, Phaethon falls to earth with the chariot and horses while his sisters grieve his death below. The myth is an example of the punishment for excessive pride or self ...
This double-sided sheet of closely observed life studies is the most magnificent drawing by Michelangelo in North-America, purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art on August 8, 1924 (its acquisition being voted by the museum’s acquisitions committee on June 9, 1924), in great part thanks to negotiations by the eminent painter, John Singer ...
Curators guide you through an intimate exploration of Michelangelo's drawings, sharing insights about his process as he conceived of great works of art.