The One about Michelangelo and the Onions: Jokes and Cultural Anxiety in the Early Sixteenth Century
This article investigates the texture of relationships within elite circles in Rome and Florence in the early sixteenth-century, and shows how visual and verbal humour at this time acted as a means through which to express anxieties about the pace of social change.
The Sistine Chapel: History and Meaning
The Sistine Chapel in Rome is one of the most famous monuments of the Italian Renaissance. The images which adorn the altar wall of this chapel are so ingrained in our minds and our culture that Michelangelo’s representation of Creation are found throughout popular culture.
Major Michelangelo exhibition to begin next week at The Met
Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from November 13, 2017, through February 12, 2018, will present a stunning range and number of works by the artist.
The Hidden Symbols of Fertility in Michelangelo’s Medici Chapel
Michelangelo often surreptitiously inserted pagan symbols into his works of art, many of them possibly associated with anatomical representations. A new analysis suggests that Michelangelo may have concealed symbols associated with female anatomy within his famous work in the Medici Chapel.Michelangelo often surreptitiously inserted pagan symbols into his works of art, many of them possibly associated with anatomical representations. A new analysis suggests that Michelangelo may have concealed symbols associated with female anatomy within his famous work in the Medici Chapel.
Laser scanning and 3D Printing used to recreate Michelangelo’s bronzes
A team of researchers have been working together to try to understand how the two mysterious Renaissance bronzes were made and why they look the way they do by making accurate replicas of the originals.
The drawings that Michelangelo did not want you to see
There are about 600 drawings by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo that have survived to the present day – many of them stunningly beautiful – but he would probably have been ‘absolutely horrified’ that the general public can now see them.
Michelangelo, Copernicus and the Sistine Chapel
A detailed examination of the themes, motifs and secrets held with Michelagelo’s masterpiece.
The Council of Trent (1545–63) and Michelangelo’s Last Judgment (1541)
Michelangelo’s Last Judgment is one of the world’s most famous paintings, located in one of the world’s most famous rooms, the Sistine Chapel.
Does Michelangelo’s poetic veil shroud a secret Luther?
The thesis poses a question derived from an unlikely nexus of two prominent figures of the Renaissance and the Reformation: the artist whose creative abilities ostensibly dominate the Vatican and religious art, juxtaposed with the rebel who splintered the dominance of Roman Catholicism.
Sofonisba Anguissola: Marvel of Nature
Sofonisba Anguissola: Marvel of Nature Fulmer, Betsy Academic Forum, No.23 (2005-6) Abstract Born in Italy during the Renaissance, Sofonisba Anguissola was the first…
‘… con uno inbasamento et ornamento alto’: The Rhetoric of the Pedestal c.1430 – 1550
‘… con uno inbasamento et ornamento alto’: The Rhetoric of the Pedestal c.1430 – 1550 By Alison Wright Art History, Volume 34, Issue…
Michelangelo’s Moses of the Julius Tomb: The Definitive Michelangelo Sculpture
Michelangelo’s Moses of the Julius Tomb is one of the most powerful works from one of the most important artists of all time. Michelangelo is perhaps best known for the David.
Metaphorical painting: Michelangelo, Dante, and the Last Judgment
Metaphorical painting: Michelangelo, Dante, and the Last Judgment Barnes, Bernadine The Art Bulletin; Mar (1995)77, 1 Abstract In the lower right corner of…