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Michelangelo Buonarroti: David, detail of the copy outside the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence
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It has been said (but I think this is just a story) that Michelangelo Buonarroti nailed some poor man to a board and pierced his heart with a spear, so as to paint a Crucifixion.
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Michelangelo Buonarroti Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into these different tabs:
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Mini-site for the 2002-2003 exhibition The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence
Michelangelo Buonarroti at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online
Michelangelo Buonarroti at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Bust of Michelangelo and a couple of works by him
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Crouching Boy, 1530-34
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Crouching Boy, ca.1530-34
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Holy Family; Putti, 1530
Michelangelo Buonarroti at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Ideal Head of a Woman, red chalk drawing
Michelangelo Buonarroti at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Male Nude, Seen from the Front, pen and ink drawing, 1505-06
Michelangelo Buonarroti at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Rebellious Slave, 1513-15
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
2 sculptures and many drawings online
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Skip forward to about page 8 for many works on paper by Michelangelo
Michelangelo Buonarroti at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Paintings collection online
National Gallery, London, UK
Michelangelo Buonarroti at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
4 works by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michelangelo Buonarroti at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Design for a statue of Henry II of France on horseback, ca.1559-60
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Vatican Museums, Vatican City
The Sistine Chapel Ceiling, the Lunettes on the Sistine Chapel walls, and The Last Judgement
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Casa Buonarroti, Florence
A dozen or so sculptures and drawings by the artist
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
190 works by or related to the artist
Frick Collection, New York City
Samson and Two Philistines, bronze
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Museo dell'Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti, Genoa, Italy (in Italian)
A cast of the head of Michelangelo's Moses
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Study for the Resurrection of Christ, ca.1532-34
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Study of a male nude, ca.1532-33
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Christ and the Woman of Samaria
Palais Fesch Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ajaccio, France (in French)
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
David Slaying Goliath, Four sketches
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" for several large drawings from a 2005-2006 exhibition
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" for several large architectural drawings from a 2006 exhibition
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands (in Dutch)
Studies van een lopend mannelijk naakt
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands (in Dutch)
Studie fresco Sixtijnse Kapel: Haman
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands (in Dutch)
Doorsnede van de koepel van de St. Pieter
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands (in Dutch)
Studie fresco Sixtijnse Kapel: mannelijk naakt
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands (in Dutch)
Studie voor fresco Sixtijnse Kapel
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The British Museum, London, UK
Online tour: Michelangelo's drawings
The British Museum, London, UK
Online tour: Michelangelo: money and medals
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Michelangelo Buonarroti 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Artnet Magazine
Artnet Magazine
Pieta Rondanini
Artnet Magazine
Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel, 1510-11
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Biography of the artist. Detailed, but Vasari's anecdotes are sometimes inaccurate.
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"The Young Michelangelo," article by Roderick Conway Morris
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"Myth of Ganymede: Aspects of love in Michelangelo," article by Roderick Conway Morris
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
Slate Magazine
"Fanciful Traces: Michelangelo's whimsical sketches," article by Christopher Benfey
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Moses, 1513-16
The London Evening Standard
"Michelangelo and his boy", 2010 article by Brian Sewell
The London Evening Standard
"Michelangelo's earliest painting should have been saved", 2009 article by Brian Sewell
Time Magazine
"Out of Grime, a Domain of Light", 1987 article by Robert Hughes
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