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Michelangelo

May 2024

  • Michelangelo’s Epifania, 1550-3 (detail). © The Trustees of the British Museum. Funding for the conservation of the Epifania was generously provided through a grant from the Bank of America Art Conservation Project.

    Michelangelo: The Last Decades review – feels close to a religious experience

    This huge yet intimate show of the Renaissance polymath’s work guides you by the heart as well as the eyes

April 2024

  • An intensely personal masterpiece … detail from Michelangelo’s Angels (Last Judgment study).

    Michelangelo: The Last Decades review – where has all the lust and longing gone?

    British Museum, London
    Michelangelo’s drawings were anything but dull, but this exhibition sucks out all the drama by focusing on his spirituality at the expense of his sexuality
  • Michelangelo’s The Punishment of Tityus.

    Michelangelo and the most sublime declarations of gay love in art

    Michelangelo announced his love for a young upper-class gentleman in verse and prose, but he also gave Tommaso de’ Cavalieri some of the greatest homoerotic drawings ever created – now taking centre stage at the British Museum
  • Cecilie Hollberg

    Hit-and-run tourism is tearing the heart out of Florence – there is a better way

    Cecilie Hollberg
    As I learned from managing Michelangelo’s David, visitors can be nudged away from the joyless in-and-out mission for selfies and souvenirs, says Cecilie Hollberg, director of Florence’s Galleria dell’Accademia

February 2024

  • Eleonora Pucci cleaning Michelangelo's statue of David at the Accademia Gallery in Florence

    ‘Dust is everywhere’: rare glimpse of how Michelangelo’s David is kept clean

    Florence museum boss compares process to cleaning a bathroom as media are granted privileged access

October 2023

  • Delicate charcoal drawings that some experts have attributed to Michelangelo are seen on the walls of a room used to store coal until 1955 inside Florence's Medici Chapel in Tuscany

    Michelangelo’s secret sketches under church in Florence open to public

  • Laid bare … detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch.

    Drink, lechery and fellatio by snake: was the Renaissance a sexually subversive love-in?

June 2023

  • Jago seen with two of his marble sculptures inside the Jago Museum in the Rione Sanità district of Naples.

    Italy’s ‘new Michelangelo’ bringing sculpture into 21st century

    Jago has earned widespread praise for his modern twists on classical art

May 2023

  • Barolo restaurant adverts, which had to be amended to be displayed on the Scottish underground.

    Subway ad for Glasgow restaurant featuring Michelangelo’s David censored over nudity

    Poster showed Renaissance sculpture holding slice of pizza with phrase: ‘It doesn’t get more Italian’

April 2023

  • This image provided by Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze shows former Dean of the Tallahassee Classical School, FL, Hope Carrasquilla, right, with Cecilie Hollberg, director of Florence's Galleria dell'Accademia museum looking at Michelangelo Buonarroti's colossal marble statue 'David', in Florence, central Italy, Friday, April 28, 2023. Hollberg invited Carrasquilla to the museum after she was forced to resign in March following parental complaints that an image of the nude Renaissance masterpiece was shown to a sixth-grade art class. (Guido Cozzi/Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze via AP)

    Florida principal who lost job over ‘pornographic’ David statue visits Italy

    Hope Carrasquilla, forced to resign after parents condemned Michelangelo’s statue as pornography, invited to Florence

March 2023

  • The original statue of Michelangelo's David.

    Florida principal resigns after parents decry Michelangelo’s David as pornography

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    The Week in Patriarchy
    In Florida, parents are always right – even when they think a Michelangelo is porn

    Arwa Mahdawi

January 2023

  • The famous view of the Duomo in Florence

    A solo trip around Europe, with my travel phobia? I only wish I’d done it sooner

    My first trip alone was daunting, but the romance and beauty of Paris, Florence and Rome helped me conquer my fears

November 2022

  • Conservator Emma Turner restores Michelangelo’s Epifania, created circa 1550.

    British Museum works to restore ‘rare and complex’ Michelangelo drawing

    16th-century work Epifania is one of only two existing cartoons by the Italian master

March 2022

  • The restored tomb of Lorenzo di Piero

    Florence tomb by Michelangelo restored with aid of bacteria

    Scientists resort to unconventional solution to problem of centuries of dirt on Medici family monument

April 2021

  • Fred Sirieix and Chris Bavin explore the New Forest.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Fred Sirieix seeks out the best dining spots in the New Forest

    The First Dates star samples seasonal produce. Plus: Kay Mellor’s lottery drama, The Syndicate, continues. Here’s what to watch this evening

November 2020

  • 1957-G by Clyfford Still at Sotheby’s in New York.

    The bigger picture: should British museums sell to stay afloat?

  • Towering talent … Jason and the Argonauts, with one of Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion creations.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Cinema's finest dream-maker and sacks appeal in Ghana – the week in art

September 2020

  • Botticelli’s Young Man Holding a Roundel

    The $80m Botticelli: could its auction trigger a Covid-rescue fire sale?

  • Visitors to the summer exhibition at the RA last year.

    Royal Academy's cruel dilemma: sell a Michelangelo or lose 150 jobs

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