A Statue Above Bologna – And Then Gone For more than three years, a magnificent bronze statue of Pope Julius II, created by Michelangelo, stood proudly above the main portal…
On March 6, 2025, the birthday of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) will mark its 550th anniversary. Fittingly, a recent discovery is making waves in the art world just in time for…
A previously unknown, limewood model of Pope Julius II is currently stirring the art history world—ironically just before the 550th anniversary of Michelangelo Buonarroti’s birth. It could well be the…
In the year of the 550th birthday of the exceptional artist Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known as “Michelangelo”, the art world is about to experience a sensation: a 16th-century…
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The back of this wooden sculpture by Michelangelo shows traces of carving and is deliberately unfinished - another trademark of his style. This "roughly left" back gives the figure a…