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The simple drawing will be sold alongside a letter written by one of Michelangelo’s descendants. Courtesy Christie's In 1986, a drawing attributed to an associate of Michelangelo was offered up ...
A drawing by the famed Renaissance master Michelangelo has sold for $201,600 at Christie’s. The auction house expected the drawing, which went under the hammer on April 17, to sell for between $ ...
Other scholars have suggested that Michelangelo could have drawn sketches of a falling man that ... positions at the newspaper -- by using the easy options below. Gifts processed in this system ...
A small drawing by Michelangelo that went to auction with a seemingly modest estimate for the Renaissance icon between US$6,000 and U$8,000 just sold for US$201,600 in New York on Wednesday.
Former owners of the Renaissance artist’s villa want to sell a sketch once on a kitchen wall. But scholars are divided over whether Michelangelo actually drew it. By Elisabetta Povoledo ...
Before his death in Rome in 1564, Michelangelo burned most of his drawings and sketches. Those his family managed to preserve were bequeathed to "Casa Buonarroti," a museum celebrating the artist ...
A sketch by Michelangelo for the dome of St Peter's Basilica has been discovered in the Vatican archives, the Vatican newspaper says. The red chalk sketch, thought to be the artist's last before his ...
While preparing to fresco the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling, Italian artist Michelangelo created hundreds—possibly thousands—of small sketches to work out the design. He destroyed many of those ...
At first, it was predicted to sell for $6,000 to $8,000, the small drawing, accompanied by a letter from Michelangelo's last direct descendant, exceeded expectations at the New York auction house.
A drawing nestled in the margin of a 15th-century edition of Dante’s Divine Comedy shows Michelangelo at work, says the author and scholar James Hall who researched the sketch for his new book ...
Sketches on the walls of a hidden room in a Florentine chapel may have been the work of Michelangelo, who sought refuge from the Medici family in 1530. Charcoal drawings on the wall of a cellar ...
An art historian claims to have discovered a Michelangelo red chalk drawing which could be a preparatory piece for part of the ceiling fresco of the Sistine Chapel (1508-12) in the Vatican.