Tag Archives: Michelangelo

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Looking at Art

The Woman Behind Michelangelo’s Cleopatra

By Posted 04/10/13

The grotesque figure on the back of Michelangelo’s famous Cleopatra drawing reveals an intimate story Read More

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News

‘The Myth of the Artist Starving’

By Posted 04/02/13

Looking back at the ’80s market boom and other excerpts from our coverage 100, 75, 50, and 25 years ago Read More

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Michelangelo: Naked Truths?

By Posted 02/01/11

Just where the artist took inspiration for The Last Judgment's nude figures has become a matter of debate. Read More

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Christ on the Cross with the Virgin Mary and Saint John, 1555–64, black chalk, heightened with white (oxidized), 161⁄8" x 1015⁄16". ©THE BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON
Reviews

Michelangelo: The Drawings of a Genius

By Posted 01/01/11

Albertina, Vienna
Through January 9 Read More

Raphael’s The School of Athens, 1509–10, contains a rare contemporary portrait of a young Michelangelo: the figure, seated front and center, writing in a notebook. STANZA DELLA SEGNATURA, VATICAN PALACE
Books

Up the Rome Staircase

By Posted 01/01/11

Young Michelangelo:
The Path to the Sistine
By John T. Spike
Vendome Press, 272 pages, $27.95 Read More

Investigations

Two responses to ‘A Controversy over Degas’

By Posted 04/01/10

William D. Cohan’s article suggests that the art world today is divided into two warring camps about 74 recently revealed Degas plasters. In fact, far more consensus than controversy surrounds these plasters than the article allows. Close examination of the … Read More

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Little Archer, Big Mystery

By Posted 12/01/09

As a marble sculpture of a boy makes its debut at the Met, experts continue to debate whether it is an early Michelangelo . Read More