MichelangeloCaprese, Arezzo 1475 – Rome 1564
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A mysterious drawing that has never made sense is now explained simply
Michelangelo’s Archers Shooting at a Herm (c.1530) Part 1
There is yet more meaning in the drawing as we see in Part 2 of this analysis
Michelangelo’s Archers Shooting at a Herm (c.1530) Part 2
Michelangelo's strange scene of a battle is not what it seems
Michelangelo’s Battle of Cascina (1504)
Always look for what is odd. It's often there where you'll find a breakthrough in meaning
Michelangelo’s Christ in the Last Judgment (1534-41)
David is not difficult to understand as long as you use the correct perspective
Michelangelo’s David (1501-04)
Michelangelo's last Pieta, left unfinished at his death but intended for his tomb, helps us make sense of his more famous version carved when he was a young man.
Michelangelo’s Florentine Pieta (1547-53)
How a drowning man in the Battle of Cascina has the hands of the artist
Michelangelo’s Hands in The Battle of Cascina (1504)
There's probably more unseen in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel than has ever been known....
Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling: Jeremiah (c.1509-10)
See why Jonah is the most important figure in the chapel
Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling: Jonah (1512)
Michelangelo’s Last Judgment is a composition so full of incidents inconsistent with an orthdox reading of the Last Judgment and theology that experts often have trouble explaining them.
Michelangelo’s St. Sebastian in The Last Judgment
See how Michelangelo continued tradition while he changed it
Michelangelo’s Study for a Bronze David (c.1502-03)
Learn how Michelangelo's The Dream of Human Life, traditionally interpreted as an allegory of virtue and vice, is instead a visual metamorphosis of the artist's head.
Michelangelo’s The Dream of Human Life (c.1533)
Michelangelo's first great masterpiece is widely misunderstood. Like art in general, it is an expression of the creative moment.
Michelangelo’s Vatican Pieta (1498-99)
EPPH Blog Posts on Michelangelo
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Find out how even Michelangelo's earliest religious sculpture represents the workings of his own mind
Michelangelo’s Madonna of the Stairs (c.1491)
This brief essay reveals for the first time how Michelangelo, in one of the world's great visual illusions, morphed his self-portrait into the torso and leg of St. Peter in The Last Judgment.
Michelangelo’s Only Known Self-portrait
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