Art historian Margrit Lisner attributes the slenderness of Jesus’s form to the patrons’ wishes, ... Michelangelo, Moses (ca. 1513–15), for the Tomb of Julius II.

Ghirlandaio’s drawing of Jupiter Enthroned could have easily reached Michelangelo, who started working at his studio in 1487, at age 12. Michelangelo became an apprentice in 1488, and left in 1490.

NEW YORK — In 1557, the author and art theorist Lodovico Dolce wrote of the great Last Judgment fresco in the Sistine Chapel: "He who sees one single figure by Michelangelo has seen them all ...

Art historians investigate strange inconsistencies in Michelangelo's famous Moses More than 500 ago, Michelangelo Buonarroti was the darling of the Catholic Church, commissioned to create many of ...

Why did Michelangelo sculpt Moses with horns?. L'Unione Sarda English - L'Unione Sarda English ...

Over the decades, the drawing has been loaned as a Michelangelo work to exhibitions in Japan, Canada, China and, most recently, the United States, where it was included in the Metropolitan Museum ...

Michelangelo’s Moses has more in common with C.S. Lewis’s Mr. Tumnus than the casual viewer might expect—namely, a couple of stubby horns.Michelangelo wasn’t the first artist to depict the ...

This is particularly ironic, given the longstanding devotion by Jewish art lovers to Michelangelo’s creations, as documented in Asher Biemann’s 2012 “Dreaming of Michelangelo: Jewish ...

Michelangelo’s career was unusually long and complicated. But it can be divided into two halves: the Florentine period until 1534, and the Roman period after. His early work established his fame.

After five years of restoration, Michelangelo's nearly 500-year-old sculpture of Moses is looking as good as new. Restorers in the Italian capital have been quietly working away on the majestic ...