Michelangelo Buonarroti - Finestre sull'Arte

Florence, Michelangelo's tomb in Santa Croce restored

Florence pays tribute to Michelangelo on the 550th anniversary of his birth with the restoration of the Buonarroti family tombstone under which the famous artist rests. The work, promoted by theOpera di Santa Croce and conducted by theOpificio delle ...
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Florence, Accademia Gallery celebrates Michelangelo's 550th birthday: here's the program

In 2025, the Accademia Gallery in Florence is preparing to celebrate the 550th anniversary of the birth of Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese, 1475 - Rome, 1564) with an ambitious project entitled The Eternal Contemporary. Michelangelo 1475 - 2025. The...
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Sebastiano del Piombo, the musician painter of the Renaissance: a monumental book on his career

Eclectic, ambitious, refined: let's talk about Sebastiano Luciani (Venice, 1485 - Rome, 1547), better known as Sebastiano del Piombo, among the most versatile and original artists of 16th-century Venice. And it is Sebastiano's art that is the focus o...
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Michelangelo's Pieta shines with new iGuzzini lighting in St. Peter's Basilica

A masterpiece of Renaissance art enjoys a new light. We're talking about Michelangelo's Pieta, preserved in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, one of the most famous sculptural groups in art history, which now benefits from an innovative lighting project ...
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Florence, an exhibition at Palazzo Vecchio explores the relationship between Michelangelo and power

Michelangelo and Power is the title of the exhibition that will animate Palazzo Vecchio in Florence from October 18, 2024 to January 26, 2025. Organized by the City of Florence in collaboration with the Casa Buonarroti Foundation and the MUS.E Founda...
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A drawing by Michelangelo hits the market: it is recognized as the first of his career

When, in 2019, art historian Timothy Clifford announced that he had identified the first known work of Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese, 1475 - Rome, 1564) the stir was great: then, for some time, the drawing he attributed to a very young Michelangel...
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Michelangelo doodle that started from an estimate of $6,000 sold for $200,000

It didn't go so well for those who had dreamed of taking home a Michelangelo drawing for a relatively low figure at Christie' s auction in New York the day before yesterday: the sheet with a doodle by the great artist, which had been put up for sale ...
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Michelangelo Buonarroti's Birthplace in Caprese: a journey through sculpture

"Michelangelo [...] from his modest castle where that great man was born, my thoughts turn to Vespignano, to Vinci, to Certaldo where Giotto, Leonardo, Boccaccio were born, and to so many other Italian lands from whence other supreme men came forth t...
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