The man who always signed his name “Michelangelo ... were arguably the greatest works of Renaisssance art. As his career escalated, Michelangelo became a hard-nosed businessman and by the ...
Hanging next to Michelangelo’s virtuoso drawing is a similarly impressive ... If these poses seem impossibly difficult to hold, for A Man with a Flail (c.1555) Battista Franco required his ...
portraits of popes and frescoes for the sumptuous villa of financier and art patron Agostino Chigi, now known as Rome’s Villa Farnesina. Based on personality alone, regardless of professional ...