A study for the Last Judgement by Michelangelo (c. 1534-36) Credit: The Trustees of the British Museum Michelangelo Buonarroti appears at the start of this exhibition – bearded and wrinkled ...

The new St Peter’s took shape slowly, and for all its spiritual symbolism it was the architectural project from hell. Imagine a century of ... While two decades earlier the orthodoxy of Michelangelo’s ...

After being moved by a portrait of the elderly, bearded, introspective Michelangelo by his most talented pupil, Daniele da Volterra, you’re plunged into his designs for The Last Judgment ...

Michelangelo for all his immense fame isn’t the most immediately lovable of artists. People crowd to stare in awe at his iconic statue David and mega-fresco The Last Judgement in the Sistine ...

but it could do without the lesser works by his collaborators Michelangelo Buonarro’s Epifania, about 1550-53; study for the Last Judgement, about 1534-36; Christ on the Cross between the Virgin ...

In those same years that he was composing sonnets and scenes of classical drama for Cavalieri, Michelangelo was also planning the complex composition of another vast fresco – Last Judgement ...

Michelangelo for all his immense fame isn’t the most immediately lovable of artists. People crowd to stare in awe at his iconic statue David and mega-fresco The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel, ...